[Tfug] Well it's back to Ubuntu...
John Gruenenfelder
johng at as.arizona.edu
Tue Dec 23 18:02:37 MST 2008
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:50:39AM -0700, Brian Vogel wrote:
> Hi everyone glad to see an active group in Tucson.
> Yes, people are deathly afraid of changing anything that doesn't have a
> check-box unless their local "geek" is hold their hand.
> Since it's the time of year for sugestions:
> sudo apt-get remove aptitude
> Happy hacking
Could you expand upon this at all? Aptitude is by far the best package
management tool/frontend I've used on any distro. I hate not having it
around. The only thing it doesn't do is allow one to reinstall an existing
package. That must be done via the command line:
apt-get --reinstall install foo
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