General Questions • Re: Difference between aptitude and apt/dpkg for managing Debian packages

dpkg is Debian's lower-level package manager, and both APT and Aptitude are frontends to it. APT is command-line while Aptitude provides TUI interface and minesweeper game. Both run in terminal
I think APT is better 'cause it's must faster to use and doesn't really need TUI/GUI eye-candy since it's already friendly. If such more interactive interface is needed I'd go with Synaptic
The other advantage of APT are it's Super Cow Powers that Aptitude lacks;

Code:

# apt[...]                                        This APT has Super Cow Powers.# aptitude -h[...]This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.

A very needed feature, if ye ask me : >

I use aptitude daily. There are several major differences between apt and aptitude - if you're not using aptitude with Trixie or Sid you're doing it wrong

aptitude will stop you, offer solutions and ask for input before installing a package that will break other packages. You pretty much have to force aptitude to break your toys.

aptitude autoremoves automatically.

synaptic doesn't run under wayland (it'll run, just not under the root account). I almost never use the ncurses interface in aptitude but it is handy, for me it's generally just aptitude update && aptitude upgrade.

Statistics: Posted by DebianFox — 2024-06-04 05:44