[Algent]

I realy like debian but is there any equivalent to yum ? It did some really nice advanced stuff I don't think you can replicate with apt. The shell mode avoided me some really big trouble several times (erlang updates often made me uninstall anything using it on update).

Current job doesn't give me many chances to use linux rn so I'm a bit out of touch. Recently took a look at rocky and it felt like a centos. also tried ubuntu but I recall I had to remove some ads package yeah.

[acatton]

Funnily enough, years ago, I migrated from Debian as my daily driver to (at the time) "Fedora Core" on my desktop.

My first question was "what's the replacement for aptitude", and people pointed me to "yum shell". It was not as good, but I got used to it, and went with it.

If you run "aptitude" on debian, without any argument, you end up in a TUI, you can use it to install or remove packages from your system, and then see the "preview" of the change, and apply/cancel the change. The same way people use "yum shell".

I'm used to new "dnf shell", so I don't miss aptitude anymore, but I think aptitude is what you're looking for.

[Algent]

Interesting, in my head aptitude was an ubuntu thing so I never tried in debian. Thanks for the tip.

I don't have anything against apt, it's just specific edge cases when it really saved me massive headaches by being able to remove and add during same change without having to remove all apps depending on it.

[Sesse__]

“apt install foo+ bar-” will install foo and remove bar, in one operation.

[Wheaties466]

as someone who has used debian and centos 6 +7 extensively apt and dpkg are more than sufficient replacement for yum with centos.

i know its a whole environment change but debian really is the logical replacement for a centos style deployment.

I would love to be able to comment on rocky linux but i havent used that quite yet.

[justinclift]

Hmmm, I've just been using apt and the dpkg-* tools (ie dpkg-query), and for my uses it's been fine. :)