"aptitude is a terminal-based package managemer with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get. aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken." Using ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was a bit surprised to find in synaptic the above - is this someone poking fun, if so it doesn't seem very professional to me. I read that Aptitude was the Debian preferred package manager and i use to use it with versions 6.10 ,7.04. In 7.10 i found that it didn't seem to close and was listed in launchpad. Since then i haven't used it and the fault doesn't seem to have been rectified. Has anyone else found this. james
James Freer wrote:
"aptitude is a terminal-based package managemer with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken."
Using ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was a bit surprised to find in synaptic the above - is this someone poking fun, if so it doesn't seem very professional to me.
I read that Aptitude was the Debian preferred package manager and i use to use it with versions 6.10 ,7.04. In 7.10 i found that it didn't seem to close and was listed in launchpad. Since then i haven't used it and the fault doesn't seem to have been rectified. Has anyone else found this.
james I have Ubuntu 8.10 and aptitude seems to close OK on that. That said, I find Synaptic adequately efficient and have no need for aptitude, and if I did need a non-GUI environment I may well prefer to use apt-get anyway. As regards humour, that's all part of the Linux experience I think and reflects the community aspect of Linux rather than corporate stuffiness which is often passed off as professionalism.
Mark
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:45:48 +0000 Mark Reid <mail@markreid.net> allegedly wrote:
As regards humour, that's all part of the Linux experience I think and reflects the community aspect of Linux rather than corporate stuffiness which is often passed off as professionalism.
Try "apt-get moo" Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Try "apt-get moo"
Mick
Yes i've mood with apt-get! Mark When i last tested with synaptic it didn't remove config files and all dependencies. Aptitude was supposed to due to using a different database and remembering what was installed. Since then apt-get has had autoremove and that does seem to work from what i could deduce - so i've stayed with apt-get for sometime. james
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:36:21 +0000 Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
But have you aptitude mood?
"There are no Easter Eggs in this program." Bah Humbug! (But a simple strings search of aptitude suggests otherwise: <quote> There are no Easter Eggs in this program. There really are no Easter Eggs in this program. Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program? Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away? /----\ -------/ \ / \ / | -----------------/ --------\ ---------------------------------------------- What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. Stop it! All right, you win. </quote> :-) Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 29 Jan 20:11, mbm wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:36:21 +0000 Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
But have you aptitude mood?
"There are no Easter Eggs in this program."
Bah Humbug!
(But a simple strings search of aptitude suggests otherwise:
<quote> There are no Easter Eggs in this program. There really are no Easter Eggs in this program. Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program? Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away? /----\ -------/ \ / \ / | -----------------/ --------\ ---------------------------------------------- What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. Stop it! All right, you win.
</quote>
You get them by doing: aptitude -v moo Then keep adding vs ;) -- Brett Parker
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:55:05 +0000 Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
You get them by doing:
aptitude -v moo
Then keep adding vs ;)
Some people have /way/ too much time on their hands. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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