[ale] Ubuntu help

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 12:08:50 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> it took me a while to convert to using Aptitude instead of Synaptic or
> Apt for my package management, but now i am a believer.  Apt doesn't do
> the dependency checking like Aptitude, and that has kept my computers
> running smoothly for quite a while.

Aptitude is a replacement for dselect. Aptitude is merely a front-end
for apt; it can't do anything apt will not.


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