aptitude accept almost all apt-get commands... but is better...
About apt-get for the future...
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt
Regards.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which
On 02/27/2009 12:15 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote:
Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then,
I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not
utilizing it's full potential.
God's just waiting for you to get complacent, and decide to create a
mixed
Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then,
I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not
utilizing it's full potential.
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On 02/27/2009 07:15 AM, thveillon.debian wrote:
Roger Leigh wrote :
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
Ye
On 02/27/2009 11:33 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that
case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices.
Then ap
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:24:19PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
was heard to say:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote:
> >which caused aptitude to run for an hour generating thousands of
> >messages about resolving open/closed/defered dependency conflicts
> >
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:39:49AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
was heard to say:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager
> > > since Et
On Friday 27 February 2009 07:15:23 thveillon.debian wrote:
> But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and
> experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude
> performs better.
Maybe I just happen to be in this case as well. I have main for
stable(+security+
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that
> > case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices.
>
> Then aptitude should remove the CLI interface and st
On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager
> > since Etch was released. It has better dependency resolution, is more
> > user-friendly, and is a bit
On Fri, 2009-02-27, 058, thveillon.debian wrote:
> But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and
> experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude
> performs better. In this situation I am really happy that aptitude is
> showing me the nuts and bolts of the tri
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 13:15:23 +, thveillon.debian
(thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com) wrote:
> Hi, just sharing a user experience with aptitude, which I use. You do
> have a point about apparent simplicity regarding apt-get, most of the
> time it just seems to "work", period. It is all the
Roger Leigh wrote :
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
>>> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to
Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to
use: apt-get.
*That* must be the reason I use apt-get and not aptitude...
Hugo
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> > > So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
> >
> > Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:31:29PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening.
>
> I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency
> conflict
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to
> use: apt-get.
>
Whaa?!??! Wait a sec. This just an unsubstantiated claim.
Since I learned about aptitude (a few years ago?), I have been using it
consistently. It gives more information than apt-g
On 26 Feb 2009 22:20:58 +0100
Urs Thuermann wrote:
...
> 1. aptitude has the nice feature of marking packages that are install
>automatically, qhich I always missed in apt-get. But every once in
>a while I check the installed package with
>
> aptitude search . | grep ^i
>
>
On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended
us to use: apt-get.
I
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening.
I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency
conflicts.
Still the CUI is no substitute for knowing how to use the aptitude command-
li
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> > So, am I doing something completely wrong here?
>
> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended
> us to use: apt-get.
Ignore Ron. Aptitude has been the recommended (b
On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote:
> I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
> of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
> dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
> and more to annoy me, fo
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:20:58PM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
> of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
> dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
> and more to annoy me
On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
and more to annoy me, for several reasons.
I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
and more to annoy me, for several reasons. Maybe, and I hope so, this
is only because i do
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