[ale] Ubuntu help

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:57:59 -0500
James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, aptitude supports most of the "apt-get" commands. However, the
> apt system is more than just "apt-get". Also, if you are using
> aptitude like apt-get, why not just use apt-get? I don't believe
> exchanging "apt-get install foo" for "aptitude install foo" reduces
> the number of steps to install foo. And if you fire up the full
> ncurses interface for aptitude you certainly aren't reducing the
> number of steps; you are actually increasing the number of steps.

There used to be an advantage in aptitude in that it would pull
Recommends: dependencies automatically.  However, apt-get now does this
as well, unless you tell it --no-install-recommends.

	--- Mike

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