What application is more "low level" - apt or aptitude?
What application is more "low level" - apt or aptitude?
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They are pretty much the same, aptitude is the recommended tool on Debian.
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Does aptitude use apt like Synaptic does?
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I think apt but aptitude is superior.
dpkg is the lowest. |
apt-get is the lowest. Aptitude is a console frontend for apt-get. Synaptic is a gui front end for apt-get. Synaptic is basically a gui aptitude.
I use apt-get if I know what I want. I use aptitude if I'm in a console and need to find something to serve a given purpose. Synaptic fills in when I'm already in a gui and need aptitude-like function. I typically use synaptic when vnc'd into my media center, or on my laptop. If i ssh into the server I use apt-get or aptitude. Basically they're all using apt-get. |
For the record, dpkg is for installing packages. It doesn't help you find them (like aptitude and synaptic) or download them (like apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic). So I guess dpkg could be considered lower level, but only because It does less. All 3 (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic) use dpkg to do the installing. The programs in question simply get the packages to you. Dpkg does the installing.
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The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - The Debian package management tools
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html Synaptic uses neither apt-get nor aptitude. Nor does it recognize apt.preference or holds placed by apt-get or aptitude. aptitude is the recommended package management tool for Debian. See my LQ.org blog post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nu-linux-3073/ |
I've had some problems with aptitude. Apt-get is more stable I think. That's why I don't use aptitude.
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I have always used apt-get. I do use aptitude to search. aptitude search ~npackage searches by name aptitude search ~dpackage searches by description |
I use aptitude for "search" and "show" things only. Apt-get for anything else.
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I used apt-get to download file from an url.
i have never use aptitude before, does it also enable one to download file from a particular url too? |
URL? You mean "repository"?
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erm ya x.x
something like this:http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/ from sourceforge as an example. sorry for my english x_x |
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>.< i was thinking of apt-get install [something] x.x aptitude-get install [something] and apt-get install [something] is the same i suppose? |
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