Re: LUG: Question about installing updates in Ubuntu - Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:45:51 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Question about installing updates in Ubuntu

From : imkilgor@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:45:51 -0500

> ...also, I believe aptitude is just a wrapper for apt. So while
> aptitude may offer more fine-tuning options, the core operations are
> equivalent. Correct me if I'm wrong, guys.
> --
> Daniel Underwood

Both aptitude and apt-get are interfaces to APT, which wraps dpkg with
dependency resolution & package retrieval. aptitude has been the preferred
interface since the release of Etch or so:

<http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-pkgmgmt>

But either will work.
--
ik

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