Ubuntu Recommended Package Manager (was Re: gnome-keyring: upgrade/downgrade/upgrade/...)

[Mauro]

On 14 November 2013 17:20, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> Mauro wrote:
>
>> On 14 November 2013 01:00, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co
>> <mailto:lists at avi.co>> wrote:
>>
>>     Kenneth Jacker wrote:
>>
>>             mg> Aptitude is not the recommended package manager for
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>>
>> No?
>> Why aptitude is not recommended?
>>
>>
>>
> It's not really that strong. For the 10.10 release there was a push to
> save some space on the install CD. This involved picking one of the pair of
> command-line apt frontends (apt-get or aptitude) to remain, and removing
> the other.
>
> Apt-get won and stayed, while aptitude was removed from the default
> install.
>
> If you want to use it there's no reason to not simply install it (apt-get
> install aptitude); it's in the main repos and hence supported.
>

In fact I use only aptitude to remove and install packages.
I've used it since I worked with debian and it works very well.
It's apt-get only with ncurses interface.
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