Re: Spring clean


I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I
will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you
referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick
scroll it looks like I'm going to have to work my way through aptitude
to figure out how to do this.

Cheers




Aptitude works the same way apt-get does. It just deals with
dependencies better.
To install you just have to use: aptitude install PACKAGE
to remove you just use: aptitude remove PACKAGE

What GUI are you referring to?

I think they may have been referring to synaptic package manager or
adept package manager.


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