James Freer wrote:

"aptitude is a terminal-based package managemer with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.

aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken."

Using ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was a bit surprised to find in synaptic the above - is this someone poking fun, if so it doesn't seem very professional to me.

I read that Aptitude was the Debian preferred package manager and i use to use it with versions 6.10 ,7.04. In 7.10 i found that it didn't seem to close and was listed in launchpad. Since then i haven't used it and the fault doesn't seem to have been rectified. Has anyone else found this.

james

I have Ubuntu 8.10 and aptitude seems to close OK on that. That said, I find Synaptic adequately efficient and have no need for aptitude, and if I did need a non-GUI environment I may well prefer to use apt-get anyway. As regards humour, that's all part of the Linux experience I think and reflects the community aspect of Linux rather than corporate stuffiness which is often passed off as professionalism.

Mark

Try "apt-get moo"

Mick

Yes i've mood with apt-get!

Mark

When i last tested with synaptic it didn't remove config files and all dependencies. Aptitude was supposed to due to using a different database and remembering what was installed.

Since then apt-get has had autoremove and that does seem to work from what i could deduce - so i've stayed with apt-get for sometime.

james

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:36:21 +0000 Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk allegedly wrote:

But have you aptitude mood?

"There are no Easter Eggs in this program."

Bah Humbug!

(But a simple strings search of aptitude suggests otherwise:

<quote> There are no Easter Eggs in this program. There really are no Easter Eggs in this program. Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program? Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away? /----\ -------/ \ / \ / | -----------------/ --------\ ---------------------------------------------- What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. Stop it! All right, you win.

</quote>

:-)

Mick

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:55:05 +0000 Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk allegedly wrote:

You get them by doing:

aptitude -v moo

Then keep adding vs ;)

Some people have /way/ too much time on their hands.

:-)

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