On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 08:53 -0500, Default User wrote: > Hello. > > For Etch, I am using aptitude, rather than apt-get. These seem to be > the equivalent commands: > > apt-get clean = aptitude clean > apt-get autoclean = aptitude autoclean > apt-get update = aptitude update > apt-get upgrade = aptitude upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade = aptitude dist-upgrade > > So what is the aptitude equivalent of apt-get "check"? > > (And an extra cookie for your browser if you can explain when to use > clean and when to use autoclean . . . )
clean vs. autoclean
clean == remove all cached files, including ones that may be ready for
install. This basically remove all *.deb files in:
/var/cache/apt/archives
autoclean == removes all but the "installed or most recent candidate to
be installed". IOW if you happen to have 83 versions of the "zsh"
package in /var/cache/apt/archives/ it reduces it to either the one
installed if it is the most recent, or the most recent candidate to
install. This is used as a "house-cleaning" operation.
"aptitude check" is a non-op. Aptitude does this automagically in
interactive mode. Aptitude forces (user selected) resolutions it can
come up with or elect to quit, when using it in cli form.
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