Questions about Aptitude
 

I've read that Aptitude should be used to install programs because it removes all the dependencies on an uninstall, while Synaptic and apt-get doesn't. Isn't apt-get and Aptitude the same thing? I'm running Mepis 6.5.02 with KDE 3.5. I can't even figure out how to launch Aptitude. Tried Cntl/F2, Konsole and Run. How do you launch it? Thanks.

run the "aptitude" command from bash prompt
try "man aptitude"
it it tells the command doesn't exist, install it with "apt-get install aptitude"

Damn, it worked. So the "apt" in apt-get isn't an abbreviation of Aptitude. They are two distinct programs? Thanks.

There is even a graphical frontend to aptitude, at least on Debian. It could come in handy if you don't know the exact name of whatever you're looking for; it's not as convenient as Synaptic, though.

I found aptitude difficult too; sometimes I just don't want to remove the dependencies (also), but it tried to do it ;) damn.