[Discuss] debian

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Thu Mar 1 12:50:10 PST 2007


> Peter, I have never tried aptitude so I won't knock it, but I generally
> prefer the command line (10 fingers have much more bandwidth than a mouse),
> and for the command-line case (which I think you might prefer as well),
> apt-cache and apt-file give you all the search functionality you need to
> supplement apt-get.

aptitude is for the command line.  Its the replacement for dselect.
-- 
Steven Kurylo


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