-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/10 18:05, Luke L wrote: > I've never seen an argument about apt-get and aptitude that > conclusively listed the benefits of one over the other. Every time a > +1 is mentioned for X, someone else says "No no no, that USED to be > but Y has that now".
Aptitude does a better work managing dependencies and is the preferred command line package manager in debian, as stated in http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt, and since we are talking about managing "Debian Packages", they may know what they are talking about. > Can aptitude duplicate this functionality with ease? Does it do all > things in any sort of superior way? Most things are done the same way, but some are done a little beter (dependency management, aptitude doing things from apt-get + apt-cache) and there are some apt-get doesn't do. apt-get install <-- aptitude install apt-get remove <-- aptitude remove apt-get remove --purge <-- aptitude purge apt-get update <-- aptitude update apt-get upgrade <-- aptitude safe-upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade <-- aptitude full-upgrade apt-get autoremove <-- unnecesary, automatically done on remove/purge apt-get clean <-- aptitude clean apt-get autoclean <-- aptitude autoclean apt-cache show <-- aptitude show apt-cache search <-- aptitude search dpkg -l | grep something <-- This remains the same There are some "complex" cases where aptitude makes a diference. When you want to purge the residual config from all uninstalled packages, you need to do something like this: dpkg --get-selections | grep "[[:space:]]deinstall$" | awk '{print $1}' | sudo xargs aptitude purge --remove or dpkg --get-selections | grep "[[:space:]]deinstall$" | awk '{print $1}' | sudo xargs dpkg -P or aptitude purge ~c - -- Raúl Soriano (GatoLoko), SpainTeam Local Community Contact. http://www.ubuntuspain.org - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/GatoLoko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwveWQACgkQ063tJLOwQue7RACeN6JsygDSGfmQkqQphMQIF6mM DZ8AniUBO47W/iaQqIPr9hJXHZ6wkkG8 =S8lM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
