Re: aptitude Re: opacity of Ubuntu

Rui Maciel writes:
I've never used aptitude before. What does aptitude does that apt-get
doesn't? Isn't aptitude a front-end to the apt-get family of tools?

apt is a library that adds dependency resolution and other things to dpkg
(which apt calls to do actual packaging system operations). The "apt-get
family of tools" is a set of command-line programs that use the apt
library. Aptitude is a curses-based program that uses the apt library (it
now reportedly has a pointy-clicky GUI). Synaptic is another program
(pointy-clicky) that uses apt.
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