[ale] Ubuntu help

[Brian Pitts]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 12:08 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Preston Boyington
> <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it took me a while to convert to using Aptitude instead of Synaptic or
> > Apt for my package management, but now i am a believer.  Apt doesn't do
> > the dependency checking like Aptitude, and that has kept my computers
> > running smoothly for quite a while.
> 
> Aptitude is a replacement for dselect. Aptitude is merely a front-end
> for apt; it can't do anything apt will not.
> 

Sure, it's all dpkg in the end, but apt-get and aptitude will suggest
different solutions to resolve dependency problems. I think Debian is
recommending the use of aptitude now, but that could have changed.

-Brian