Saturday, February 18, 2006

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package management with aptitude

Many software packages can be in Ubuntu easily with instant messaging applications

  • Applications are characterized by dependency (English dependencies) and recommendations (English recommendations) are automatically installed with a
  • in the aptitude GUI.
  • package Source: main
Package Name: aptitude? (included in the default installation.) uninstall with aptitude packages installed again, the automatically installed packages that are needed by any other package to be recognized as obsolete. These packages can be uninstalled from the Aptitude GUI as well. The Aptitude GUI is invoked by typing

aptitude

no parameters. Sources:

HOWTO: use aptitude instead of synaptic and why.
(English)
aptitude - Being a console geek without the pain
(English transparencies)

aptitude basics

- directly from debian.org (English) KanotixWiki: AptitudeNotAptGet
( German)