Comments on: Aptitude vs Apt-Get http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Gusnan's blog » apt-get or aptitude? http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-117024 Gusnan's blog » apt-get or aptitude? Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:01:05 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-117024 [...] forums and mailinglists, I often see the debate of apt-get or aptitude appear. I have found this post on another blog which is really interesting, and well worth linking from here. October 9, 2012 | [...]

]]> By: LOLing at my old PC http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116207 LOLing at my old PC Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:21:49 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116207 [...] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/fdisk_partitioning.html http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/ [...]

]]> By: James http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116062 James Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:02 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116062 1. Why do “sort” and “aptitude” sort in a different order certain characters?

When will someone fix these annoying things in Linux instead of developing new useless desktop fantasies?

2. When I use:
aptitude search ~dfractal |head

I cannot see the whole descriptions
When will someone fix this annoying thing in bash?

3. When will someone join all the different apt tools in one well designed tool that has the best of all of them instead of so many useless desktop fantasies?

4. “aptitude show” shows some info and “apt-cache show” shows another info.
That is not elegant. Leave that for windoze.

]]> By: James http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116061 James Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:26:43 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116061 And Ubuntu, Linux destroyer basterds, want to destroy aptitude and have only apt tools?

]]> By: Raphaël Hertzog http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115819 Raphaël Hertzog Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:26:58 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115819 Reducing the problem to apt-get vs aptitude is not exactly correct, there are more package managers than just those two. In particular graphical package manager that are probably more attractive for beginners.

And your aptitude praise falls short on my experience, I like some aspect of aptitude but for big upgrades its CLI tends to not work very well.

FWIW, I shared my own point of view in a blog article: apt-get, aptitude, … pick the right package manager for you.

]]> By: CISCO certification http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115778 CISCO certification Fri, 20 May 2011 13:31:13 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115778 Good article i am definitely going to share this article with my friends on facebook.

]]> By: Daniel Jonsson's Blog http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115754 Daniel Jonsson's Blog Sat, 14 May 2011 09:07:52 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115754 Why Aptitude Is Superior To Apt-Get…

Yesterday I was messing around in the terminal and googeling for cool and useful commands. I had seen the command aptitude being mentioned a few times before in forum threads and such, but I had never tried to use it myself. However, yesterday I did tr…

]]> By: Daniel Jonsson http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115753 Daniel Jonsson Sat, 14 May 2011 08:48:52 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115753 Great article!
I’m definitely going to use aptitude from now on. :)

]]> By: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115434 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:52:34 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115434 When you started listing things like apt-listbugs and deborphan, I thought you were going to show us how to do the same with aptitude. Also, the one thing apt-get beats aptitude is speed (search and show), and yes it noticeable on a Core 2 Duo system.

]]> By: Linux package management: use aptitude, if your distro has it »Autarchy of the Private Cave http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115371 Linux package management: use aptitude, if your distro has it »Autarchy of the Private Cave Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:43:39 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115371 [...] the inbox »Linux package management: use aptitude, if your distro has it19th August 2007Found Aptitude vs Apt-Get post. Worth reading – both the post and the comments – if you are looking for a Linux [...]

]]> By: Too Much Information » Blog Archive » Xen: Lenny dom0 & Lucid domU - Blogging instead of receiving that glazed-over look from my wife… http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111537 Too Much Information » Blog Archive » Xen: Lenny dom0 & Lucid domU - Blogging instead of receiving that glazed-over look from my wife… Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:05:00 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111537 [...] The first part is to install the Xen hypervisor and a Kernel with the Xen patches. Fortunately, it’s really easy with Debian. You should use aptitude to do so, if you aren’t already using aptitude instead of apt-get you might want to check out the article in parenthesis (http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/). [...]

]]> By: jemadux http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111096 jemadux Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:08:16 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111096 I think that you tell the differencies
thanks

]]> By: teo http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111032 teo Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:27:18 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111032 Aaron, what a good reminder of the old days I went with the same rpm dependencies shits that had burnt so many off my night candles away ! Debian and Ubuntu are finally
the preferable choice agreed!

And most importantly, please continue to write good articles like this one !

Thank you for the inputs ! Cheers!

]]> By: Thijs http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110938 Thijs Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:33:40 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110938 i hate aptitude for not having an –qq option like apt-get

i have the folowing cron line witch emails me if there is something to be upgraded or if there are errors, else it does its work silendly!!! every night

MAILTO=my@email.tdl
# m h dom mon dow command
31 1 * * * apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq -s -y upgrade && apt-get -qq autoclean && apt-get -qq autoremove

]]> By: P.Rudra http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110857 P.Rudra Mon, 10 May 2010 12:35:07 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110857 Are you not doing injustice to opensuse-11.2/10.3? Yast does all these things. I am continually switching between debian-sarge/etch/lenny and opensuse-sled10/10.2/10.3/11.2 and
have found them equal in power.

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