Re: How do I check the package I just installed

Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lina <lina.lastname@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

After purge, reboot it came back to before.

Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing
packages. The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between
automatically installed packages and packages the user requested to
install.
[...]

Aptitude was recommended over apt-get for this reason back in Lenny, but
as of 6.0 Squeeze, apt-get can also tracks automatically installed
packages. I couldn't find any conclusive snippets to quote from
official documentation, but I think aptitude is now only recommended for
interactive usage, while APT is preferred for scripts and command-line
usage.

Hm, the manpage of apt-get says that there's now the option "autoremove"
to remove automatically installed packages, so you're probably right.
That's good to know, thanks :)

Do all the other frontends using the apt library consider automatically
installed packages now?


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