thanks for letting us know about the wrapper, Brian.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> 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~(-:
>>
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