Somebody told me aptitude is able to catch like conflicts and accidental removal of core packages and stuff but also I think the last time I upgraded ubuntu it told me aptitude is deprecated? So idk
aptitude is a whole different resolver and a curses based UI for it
In some cases, where there were weird problems with multiple possible solutions, aptitude gave a better way of viewing those possible solutions and coming up with a set of packages that work
But, I only used it occasionally back in the day, and eventually forgot how to use it. Apt got better at picking better defaults, and I always preferred it to remembering how to navigate aptitude
@unlambda@mcc I still use aptitude specifically for the UI. The way it allows you to carefully look at the conflicts and operate to fix them is a life-saver, although I would prefer if it had a better resolver, or if it could be used to manage the apt choices
@mcc apt-get isn't going away, and it has a more stable api than apt which is more of a convienience helper script for apt-get and other apt-* tools. It's fine to keep using apt-get.
aptitude is very bad and should be used by no one. It will mess up your system and ruin your day.
@mcc Really, apt is just a wrapper that forwards some things to apt-get and some things to apt-cache. The vast majority of the time, all it does is save you from typing that "-get" or "-cache"
As long as your hands are willing to type those few extra characters, there's no difference. It's just there because people ask "why do I have to remember which commands are in apt-get and which are in apt-cache" and "why do I have to type that extra -get and -cache"?
@mcc I’ve been typing apt get for years and just forced myself to switch to apt because I kept seeing hints in docs that somehow apt is newer? I have no idea why.
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