Paul, On 07/06/10 17:46, Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Johnathon Tinsley<kir...@kirrus.co.uk> [2010-06-07 15:06]: >> On 07/06/10 14:30, Paul Tansom wrote: >>> ** Tony Arnold<tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk> [2010-06-07 11:18]: >>>> On 07/06/10 08:51, Neil Perry wrote: >>>>> I've just been pointed out, that for Maverick they have removed aptitude >>>>> being install by default. I don't want to start another button debate. >>>>> >>>>> But how many of you using aptitude rather then apt-get? >>>>> >>>>> I've used aptitude since I started using ubuntu, seeing as I thought >>>>> apt-get wasn't maintained any more. >>>> >>>> That's irritating. On the command line I always use aptitude. I started >>>> doing so because I thought I had seen somewhere that debian was adopting >>>> aptitude as their standard command line package management tool. >>>> >>>> I guess I'll just add aptitude to do the list of packages I install by >>>> default. >>> ** end quote [Tony Arnold] >>> >>> Yes, I've always used aptitude as well, believing it to be the replacement >>> for >>> apt-get. I also quite like that it has search built in rather than having to >>> install apt-find as well. I have to say that the only time I use the GUI >>> tools, >>> even on Ubuntu desktop, is when it pops up with updates. If I want a new >>> package I use aptitude, and haven't found any of the attempts at GUI tools >>> to >>> be anywhere near as easy to use. Maybe that's because I'm a techy, and >>> increasingly Ubuntu seems to be aimed at non-techies. Server side I use >>> aptitude all the time since you never need a GUI on a server - obvious to >>> anyone except Microsoft ;) >> >> You don't need to install apt-find to search, just use 'apt-cache >> search', which comes with apt-get by default :) > ** end quote [Johnathon Tinsley] > > I knew apt-find wasn't the correct command, but given that it's a long time > since I used anything other than aptitude I went with it for the email! Thanks > for the reminder :)
apt-find can be used to find which package a particular file is part of which you cannot do with apt-cache or aptitude. Both apt-cache and aptitude will let you search for a package. They at least search package names, they may also search package descriptions, but I'm not sure about that. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
