Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

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I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other
comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names.

apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't
handle dependencies as well, leaving me to install software by hand
with 'dpkg -i'. Sometimes, it can't even find the package at all.

Now it wants me to 'apt-get autoremove' telling me that "The
following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:" and then provides a long list containing predominately
packages that I use on a daily basis. It looks like apt-get is
daring me to hose my system.

I just want to find something better. I have nothing against dpkg
other than that I have to resolve the dependency issues myself. I
still run apt-get update to make sure security patches are in
place; I do wish that it was the tool I remembered it being years
ago.


Thanks for the tips!
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:24:36 -0600 Celejar <celejar@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
sys49152@xxxxxxxxxxxx dijo:

...

For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have
been
finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so.
I am
beginning to suspect that apt-get is becoming aged and
neglected.
Is there a newer/more modern package tool that has been getting
more development attention that I should be using instead?

...

But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be
using aptitude.
I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new
stuff. After a
graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll
have to delete
some of the old stuff. Bah.

"Note that aptitude is the preferred program for package
management
from console both for package installations and package or system
upgrades."

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-
aptitude

Celejar
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