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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