Hi Andrei > Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 3:06 PM > From: "Andrei POPESCU" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > > aptitude was deprecated for some very specific uses only (in particular > dist-upgrades), not because it couldn't do them, but because APT found > better solutions. It also didn't help that development of aptitude was > stopped for a while.
Yeah, I remember somewhat clearly that someone in www.reddit.com/r/debian advised me to use "sudo apt upgrade" instead of aptitude because with the former, I can see the green-colored progress bar during the installation of packages. > > In this particular case, apt doesn't have a 'why' command, hence the > suggestion to use aptitude instead. > Thanks for your advice and time. I really appreciate it. Best regards.
