[K12OSN] re: YUM, APT-GET or APTITUDE (Paul VanGundy)
Matt Oquist
moquist at majen.net
Wed Nov 23 16:50:14 UTC 2005
> From: "Paul VanGundy" <vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us>
> Subject: [K12OSN] YUM, APT-GET or APTITUDE
> All,
> Which do you think is the best: YUM, APT-GET or APTITUDE?
> -Paul
On Debian/Ubuntu, apt-get. On Yellow Dog, I expect yum is the best.
I don't really like either of them on RH/FC/CentOS, but you gotta use
what you have...so I use 'yum' there.
Aptitude is just a higher-level tool than the apt-* tools, and while
I've never tried aptitude personally I've read disparaging things
about it. Also, the apt-* tools roughly matched the level of
functionality I had formerly with 'emerge' and (much more formerly)
with 'rpm'. All this is to say that aptitude isn't necessarily
"better" or "worse", it's just different.
--matt
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Open Source Software Engineering Consultant
http://majen.net/
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