Synaptic has also a sources.list editor, which aptitude lacks. And you can use various search filters in synaptic while aptitude can perform only very basic (although fast!) package searches. My main gripe against synaptic is that it sorts (at least it did the last time I tried synaptic) packages under strange groups while aptitude follows the same familiar package grouping that you can find in the official web interface: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

If I install anything using apt-get and its dependences, then if I remove that using aptitude will it remove everything?? Thanks.

No. And reviving long dead threads is juvenile and unhelpful.

I disagree. I would neither thought of this particular matter nor found thread had this post been revived. I am not an expert, I would know terminal from turkey. I am learning. Any place I can learn is a big help. So, yes, it can be useful.

is worth noting that Synaptic is a front end for apt-get .. or is that changing with Koala's newly branded apps shop or whatever it's called?

.. so if you use synaptic to install/remove stuff, you are apt-getting, as opposed to aptituding, if you'll excuse the ings n tings.

then again, maybe apt-get and aptitude are more cooperational these days anyhow .. with a full upgrade twice a year, if you elect to fupgrade, I guess it clears a lot of cobwebs.

.. also, gtkorphan is a worthy install. it finds orphaned packages for safe removal. great for those with LTS editions or appoholics.

i've just always found the console my preferred upgrade method

Won't apt-get do the same with "autoremove" (sudo apt-get autoremove) ?

Yes apt-get will with 'autoremove'. Aptitude isn't the best anymore, IMO. Apt-get with Synaptic combined is awesome and I use it exclusively. Debian and Sidux have recommended apt-get a long time. I think at one point Aptitude was preferable a few years ago, but the perpetuation of that has become a myth ....I'm going to RHEL anyway so who cares

No, Debian still recommends aptitude over apt-get.. and has for years.

So why are you trolling the Debian forum with your opinion?.
Not to mention dragging up an old thread.

For some loose definition of 'still'. The reference you give relates to upgrading etch to lenny. The current Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html makes no reference to a preferred tool. In fact a telling line is:

I think that once upon a time it mattered whether you used apt-get or aptitude but it is now all the same under the hood.

Edit: I really must read ore carefully:

From the FAQ

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I'm still using Debian...the only troll post I see is yours. Guess I was wrong about what Debian recommends, but that's all. I abhor Aptitude after a few years with it. Just my opinion, and others as well....such as the AptoSid folks.

@demosthenese Lenny is still stable, so it's not that out of date in Debian terms. Thanks for the link you found though.

And you have decided to ignore the points I made.Never mind.

Partially.
And the apt-get versus aptitude debate will continue.

Then don't use it.Simple.

Which goes back to the first line of my first post.

So go tell them how much you like apt-get and how aptitude sucks,you'll fit right in.