Re: [orca-list] Perhaps I misunderstood: Differences in apt, vs. aptitude

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

As with most things, if you Google around you'll find proponents of 
apt-get and proponents of aptitude. Like I said, I just use apt-get 
mostly because that was what I was shown when I first starting using 
Ubuntu. I mostly just picked that link because it seemed to be the 
easiest to read.


On 11/01/2017 06:30 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> I just read that article and found it useful.  Although it seems to 
> portray aptitude is all-around better than apt-get, section 4.4 of the 
> release notes for stretch begins with this:
>
>  The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian releases is to 
> use the package management tool apt-get. In previous releases, 
> aptitude was recommended for this purpose, but recent versions of 
> apt-get provide equivalent functionality and also have proven to more 
> consistently give the desired upgrade results.
>
> I've used apt, apt-get, and aptitude, depending on my mood or the size 
> of my coffee mug. :-)
>
> And, I don't know if that's useful to know for anything other than 
> straight Debian.
>
> Al
>
> On 11/01/2017 02:27 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > I've always just used apt, but here's an article talking about the 
> > differences https://www.tecmint.com/difference-between-apt-and-aptitude/
> >
> >
> > On 10/31/2017 08:53 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> > > I thought apt was just an abrieviated form of aptitude, but that 
> > > really both were pretty much exactly the same. I won't tell yall who 
> > > told me this back in the days, as he'd mutelate me if I did, but 
> > > unless I misunderstood him, which is possible... sigh... I'm so 
> > > confused!
> > > Chris.
> > >
> > >
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> > Christopher (CJ)
> > Chaltain at Gmail
> >
> >
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