Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote:
I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to
do so?

Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog
post on the many reasons to use aptitude over apt:

http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/

Debian also mentions to use aptitude over apt:

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

To answer your question directly though, both apt and aptitude rely on
dpkg for the installation and removal of packages. So, no worries.

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