apt-get v aptitude

[Brian Cluff]

I've used both, but only aptitude has managed to screw up my systems 
more than once, so I stick with apt now.  The nice thing is that apt had 
picked up all the features that I used to use aptitude for.

Recently I noticed that the apt suite of programs added a wrapper to all 
the programs called apt.  The nice this about using apt instead of 
apt-get is that it adds a progress bar to installs... so no more sitting 
around wondering how much longer your install is going to take.  You can 
also use pretty much use all the options that you use with apt-get and 
apt-cache and it will just do the right thing, athough they did change 
the dist-upgrade to full-upgrade.

Brian Cluff

On 11/23/2014 11:48 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I don't know how recent the command 'aptitude' is but I learned
> 'apt-get'. Are the two commands interchangeable? Which should I use? How
> are they different?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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