On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:15:08 -0700 Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > In my experience (I’m the OP) aptitude was always part of the default > installation, even when I specified a text-only (no DE) system. It’s > very recent (last month or so) that I now have to “apt-get install > aptitude”. I wonder what you and I are doing differently? > I haven't ever installed sid as such, that may be a difference. I normally have the current stable netinstall CD laying around, I put on the most minimal system allowed, upgrade it as stable, upgrade straight to sid, then install all the bells and whistles I want. I usually fiddle around a bit before the sid upgrade, and I like aptitude, sudo and mc around then, and I've always had to explicitly install them. I haven't yet done this with anything later than wheezy, which is why I asked when aptitude was moved into the base system. Presumably some component(s) of a full desktop system specifies aptitude, but I haven't ever gone that way. I'm either installing a stable server, when I don't want anything graphical, or I'm working up to sid with minimal downloading where I want aptitude earlier than it might otherwise arrive. -- Joe
