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

From : Alexander Ray <alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:42 -0500

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Also note that aptitude is superior and should be used in favour of
apt-get due to its ability to track packages installed solely as
dependencies and remove them when no longer needed, and its greater
capacity for resolving conflicts.


apt-get actually does to this.  See 'apt-get autoremove' and the apt-get man page.

~Alex