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Which tool do you use for package management?
Which tool do you use for package management?
My question is which of the various front-ends and tools for APT do you use to install/update/remove packages in your Debian system?
Myself, since I've reinstalled Debian Sarge a few months ago, I've followed the recomendation I found in its installation manual and exclusively use aptitude. And so far it has been working great. Not only can I use it to install packages in the command line, like apt-get, but I also use its text-frontend to search and browse for packages. Also, the feature of removing unneded packages is nice.
Before, I used a combination of apt-get to install, and Synaptic to browse packages.
Dselect, I _never_ liked, because of its interface!
Myself, since I've reinstalled Debian Sarge a few months ago, I've followed the recomendation I found in its installation manual and exclusively use aptitude. And so far it has been working great. Not only can I use it to install packages in the command line, like apt-get, but I also use its text-frontend to search and browse for packages. Also, the feature of removing unneded packages is nice.
Before, I used a combination of apt-get to install, and Synaptic to browse packages.
Dselect, I _never_ liked, because of its interface!
The Debian Documentation website contains the FAQ, Installation Manual and the Release Notes for Etch. They're helpful if you want to learn more about debian!
Re: Which tool do you use for package management?
I used to just use apt-get, but I find Synaptic much more efficient to browse through.jobezone wrote:My question is which of the various front-ends and tools for APT do you use to install/update/remove packages in your Debian system?
Myself, since I've reinstalled Debian Sarge a few months ago, I've followed the recomendation I found in its installation manual and exclusively use aptitude. And so far it has been working great. Not only can I use it to install packages in the command line, like apt-get, but I also use its text-frontend to search and browse for packages. Also, the feature of removing unneded packages is nice.
Before, I used a combination of apt-get to install, and Synaptic to browse packages.
Dselect, I _never_ liked, because of its interface!
I just type and that is all i need to make my computer 1120% faster and it also updates my backyard garbage and make my car 35% faster.
(allright, that was a stupid joke) i voted so fast that i missed "combination of atp+synaptic" just voted for synaptic.
Yesterday i came across "The Emerde Projec" http://emerde.freaknet.org/ seems interesting (maybe) i'm gonna try it on my slackware partition
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(allright, that was a stupid joke) i voted so fast that i missed "combination of atp+synaptic" just voted for synaptic.
Yesterday i came across "The Emerde Projec" http://emerde.freaknet.org/ seems interesting (maybe) i'm gonna try it on my slackware partition
Re: Which tool do you use for package management?
I think I should have left out the "Synaptic+apt-get" option from the poll It makes the results less clear), and should instead ask what is the application you most use for package management....
Oh well :/
Also, you should try adept, it's very cool, and uses Debtags!
Oh well :/
Also, you should try adept, it's very cool, and uses Debtags!
The Debian Documentation website contains the FAQ, Installation Manual and the Release Notes for Etch. They're helpful if you want to learn more about debian!
That looks interesting! I'll have to give it a try, that's one thing Debian always holds over Slackware.Yesterday i came across "The Emerde Projec" http://emerde.freaknet.org/ seems interesting (maybe) i'm gonna try it on my slackware partition Wink
I've used apt for every thing, can't seem to keep dselect from braking my system, I'm sure it's me. for example once I made some bad solection, and presto, deselect uninstalled all of KDE. Now that wasn't what I wanted
I have a question about Synaptic, Is it part of the base install of Debian 3.1 or do I need to added it? Question #2, If it's part of base where is it? I've looked in the menu but don't see it in KDE. Question #3 Is it called up from CL? if so whats the command?
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I should have worded the poll! The question should have been:CuCullin wrote:Other.... KPackage. Unless you want to count that as apt-get. At the CLI, I use aptitude like apt-get... ie: aptitude install packagename. I don't like the aptitude ui at all, but someone mentioned somewhere (I forget where) that aptitude was the recommended way of doing things now.
What is the apt frontend you mostly use for package management?
1 - adept
2 - aptitude
3 - apt-get
4 - adept
5 - synaptic
6 - other (specify)
The Debian Documentation website contains the FAQ, Installation Manual and the Release Notes for Etch. They're helpful if you want to learn more about debian!