Re: aptitude vs. apt
2010/6/14 Anthony Hook anthony.ho...@gmail.com: In addition, I can do: $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade and as far as I know, apt-get does not have this functionality. $ sudo apt-get upgrade (as opposed to dist-upgrade, which is called full-upgrade in aptitude). -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: aptitude vs. apt
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck akk...@shallowsky.com wrote: Chris Jones writes: I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that can't be done already with other built-in tools. I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't. dpkg -l baz* not good enough for you? For more robust syntax use dpkg-query Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude (and without firing up a gui program)? Certainly aptitude isn't perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly long shell pipeline. ...Akkana -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss In addition, I can do: $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade and as far as I know, apt-get does not have this functionality. Also, aptitude has nice to use interface that's pretty powerful when you run it with no arguments in a terminal. This is excellent for solving any dependency problems or whatever you'd like to do with it. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: aptitude vs. apt
apt-cache search On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:03 AM, Akkana Peck wrote: Chris Jones writes: I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that can't be done already with other built-in tools. I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't. Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude (and without firing up a gui program)? Certainly aptitude isn't perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly long shell pipeline. ...Akkana -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Windows - The only OS you can buy from TOYSrUS http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3896283 Tim Hawkins tim.hawk...@me.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: aptitude vs. apt
On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck akk...@shallowsky.com wrote: Chris Jones writes: I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that can't be done already with other built-in tools. I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't. dpkg -l baz* not good enough for you? For more robust syntax use dpkg-query Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude (and without firing up a gui program)? Certainly aptitude isn't perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly long shell pipeline. ...Akkana -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
