For those who use Ubuntu or Debian and still use apt-get
and apt-cache search
, you might want to start thinking about using aptitude
instead. Two reasons include:
- It handles dependencies better.
apt
is pretty good with dependencies, but from my research it seems clear thataptitude
is far superior - You you can just just one command.
aptitude
is used to install, remove, and search for packages. This is great; the fact that I had to switch toapt-cache search
to find things usingapt
has always annoyed me greatly.
Anyway, just wanted to pass it on in case anyone in the Debian/Ubuntu world is interested. ::
Notes
1 The aptitude
manpage.