thanks for letting us know about the wrapper, Brian. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >