[ale] apt question

[Jason Day]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:52:48PM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:33 pm, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> > apt-get update
> > aptitude
> 
> Hmm.  Installing apt did not install aptitude on my RH system.  Is it a 
> separate package?

Yes, apt-get install aptitude

> 
> Speaking of separate packages, synaptic is the standard gui for apt that 
> i've seen.   kpackage will also interface with it.  I'm not a big fan of 
> either.

aptitude is an ncurses frontend to apt.  I've used it a couple of times,
and synaptic a couple of times, as well as dselect.  They all have
different features, and I'm not a big fan of any of them either.
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