On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com > wrote:
> On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck <akk...@shallowsky.com> wrote: > > Chris Jones writes: > >> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's > >> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that > >> can't be done already with other built-in tools. > > > > I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages > > are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't. > > > > dpkg -l "baz*" > > not good enough for you? > > For more robust syntax use dpkg-query > > > Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude > > (and without firing up a gui program)? Certainly aptitude isn't > > perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even > > if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with > > other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly > > long shell pipeline. > > > > ...Akkana > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > In addition, I can do: $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade and as far as I know, apt-get does not have this functionality. Also, aptitude has nice to use interface that's pretty powerful when you run it with no arguments in a terminal. This is excellent for solving any dependency problems or whatever you'd like to do with it.
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