Re: Spring clean

On 09/29/2007 01:39 PM, andy wrote:
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




Since you're used to apt-get, keep using that. Use deborphan to help you find orphaned packages.

Some people find that mixing aptitude and apt-get leads to trouble.



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