Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:14:32PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
* hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable
text-based user interface, use 'aptitude'.
after it's started in a text console (very useful if your X is broken)
the command 'u' updates its package lists, 'U' then does the same as
apt-get upgrade, except that it just decides which things to upgrade
without doing it, 'g' tell sit to go ahead and do it -- except again, it
pauses once for you to vies the entire list of proposed changes. You
can then edit the list if you wish, and do another 'g' to get it to
actually make the changes.

I have been wanting to try aptitude (so far I have used apt-get) but
it has intimidated me in the past.

apt-get is the one the intimidates *me*. I use it only when aptitude is
inadequate.

By the way, aptitude can also be used in command-line mode, but I rarely
do that.

But, it really does sound decent
and so I think I will bite the bullet and do it. After all, this has
all been driven by the desire to learn how to use Debian. And I
really like the sound of its ability to remove unused dependencies
later.

It can surprise you when it does that; I always check through the list
to see if I might still need something there for other reasons. It may
not know that *I*'m using a package.


Many thanks for the info on this.

Patrick


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