Re: about apt and aptitude update

[tomas]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude
> 
> I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they
> are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just
> one update on either tool and that would do both.

Yes.

Cheers
 - t


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about apt and aptitude update

[Harry Putnam]

I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude

I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they
are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just
one update on either tool and that would do both.