On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 19:44:19 +0000, OECT T wrote: > I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude > package was not installed by default.
The correct conclusion to draw from this is that aptitude does not have a Priority: higher than optional in stretch. > I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package > is not marked with the Debian icon indicating that the package is not > supported. This conclusion has been comprehensively dealt with by Tomas. > I would appreciate any comments about it. > > What other command line packages are recommended instead of Aptitude? > > Is Aptitude or will be soon a deprecated package ? (Debian Reference > still contains a good deal of information about Aptitude) No. -- Brian.