aptitude is the awnser

Posted Dec 1, 2006 14:24 UTC (Fri) by kl (guest, #36963)
In reply to: aptitude is the awnser by miguelzinho
Parent article: Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages (Linux.com)

The awnser is `aptitude`. Aptitude is officialy supported and recommended since Sarge release. It is the most complete and competent package manager that man knows, IMHO.

Aptitute has "only" two problems:

1. Aptitude uses quite a lot of memory (this is problem for some of us). It's also slower than apt-get.

2. Handling automatically installed packages is broken. (Doesn't work from command line.)

What e.g. "aptitude unmarkauto foobar" does?

It should mark foobar as manually installed. Sadly, aptitude tries to remove package.

Hopefully this bug will be fixed some day.