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aptitude !aptitude !Posted Nov 8, 2007 21:20 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111)In reply to: aptitude ! by xav Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions
FWIW, the latest apt suite handles the auto-installed tracking directly. But yes, aptitude rocks. If you tried it a few years ago, and were frustrated by its tendency to try to remove 30% of your packages so it could upgrade one library, try it again: its much much better.
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aptitude ! Posted Nov 9, 2007 20:41 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Yes,apt-get autoremove works fairly well for removing unwanted packages which were automatically installed. I don't feel so comfortable with aptitude, with its endless lists of packages; for browsing packages I prefer synaptic, even if it's a bit slow, or plain apt-cache.
aptitude ! Posted Nov 12, 2007 22:01 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Agreed, the functionality is leaps and bounds better than it used to be. Unfortunately the user interface is still terrible.
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