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by sapphirecat 5364 days ago
> apt-get (did you mean aptitude? What's the difference?)

aptitude is a TUI front-end for apt-get (which is to yum as dpkg is to rpm). synaptic and the Ubuntu Store are GUIs into the same system, though I think the store is further layered over aptdaemon and/or PackageKit. (I don't use the store much, since I'm used to synaptic, so I'm foggy on the details there. At any rate, the store UI isn't blocked while installs progress.)
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sciurus 5364 days ago
aptitude also has a CLI. For a while it was recommended over apt-get/apt-cache/apt-file because it tracked packages that were installed only in order to satisfy dependencies and let you automatically remove them when you uninstalled the package that needed them. However, now apt-get does that too.
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disgruntledphd2 5364 days ago
You can search for a name with aptitude, whereas you can't with apt-get. Thats why I prefer the former anyway.
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