Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Davies
Martin adsrtg-ml...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? Not if you use a preferences file with pinning. Aptitude honours it. Synaptic ignores it. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-15 01:06 +0100, Omar Campagne wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-14 Thread Omar Campagne
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just

are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-13 Thread Martin
I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-13 Thread Aioanei Rares
Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Black Dew
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both synaptic and aptitude

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Black Dew
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both synaptic and aptitude

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Chris Lale
Black Dew wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread M-L
On Monday 22 May 2006 17:39, Chris Lale wrote this for perusal by us all: --- Black Dew wrote: --- --- kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: --- --- Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to --- mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Wohler
OK, I have to jump in since there seems to be a lot of misinformation going around. Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is one snag. Aptitude keeps a note of packages that have been installed manually (as opposed to being installed automatically as dependencies). The result is that it

mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions?Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. thanksraju

aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
The recent discussion about 'apt-get' and 'aptitude' was interesting and useful (I've used 'aptitude' for years). It appeared that the consensus was not to mix the two. What about 'aptitude' and 'synaptic'? Is it safe to use one, and then the other ... i.e., mixed use? Thanks for your ideas

aptitude and synaptic

2003-12-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Does Synaptic's ability to remove including any orphaned dependencies do as good a job as the inate abilities of aptitude? I've recently abandoned apt in favor of aptitude for its ability to track and automatically remove unneeded dependencies. However, I really like Synaptic, but want to be

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Petr Vanek wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections and then not following thru

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: could i uninstall dselect - is that even possible without making problems in dpkg system? No, it's not possible yet. dselect will be split out into a separate package for the release after woody, but dpkg will pre-depend on it to

aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead to an utter state of confusion? If one is going to mix and match these must one

Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time

2002-06-17 Thread Petr Vanek
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead to an utter state