<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I never used 'apt' before - always apt-get (et al). This is an interesting note in the 'apt' man page:<br><br>SCRIPT USAGE<br> The apt(8) commandline is designed as a end-user tool and it may change the output between versions. While it tries to not break backward compatibility there is no guarantee for it either. All features of apt(8) are available in apt-cache(8) and apt-get(8) via APT options. Please prefer using these commands in your scripts.<br><br></div>'apt' looks like a subset of the commands in apt-get and apt-cache. There's no 'apt autoremove' for example to remove packages that are no longer needed as dependencies. Anyone using 'apt' have reasons they like it over 'apt-get' and friends? (I do see that 'apt search X' returns more helpful info than 'apt-cache search X'.)<br><br></div>TIA<br><br></div>Jeff<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Preston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 4/26/2016 1:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:20:12 -0400<br>
> dev null zero two <<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> just an aside, DJ: I'm pretty sure "apt" has superseded aptitude _and_<br>
>> apt-get now.<br>
><br>
> Where does one find good, accurate and understandable documentation on<br>
> apt?<br>
><br>
> SteveT<br>
><br>
> Steve Litt<br>
> April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century<br>
> <a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21</a><br>
<br>
</span>The Debian Administrator's Handbook is one place:<br>
<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/apt.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/apt.html</a><br>
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