The '+' or '-' key to install/update or remove a package.The bracket keys ('') to open and close levels recursively.The 'Enter' key to select or open and close a single level.The 'up', 'down', 'left', 'right' keys to navigate.To run interactively, enter the following from a terminal emulator: aptitude for disk space reasons), a plain text variant of the user manual is still available at /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README. If you have just aptitude installed (e.g. If you have the package aptitude-doc-en installed ( other languages are available), you can find an HTML manual for your installed version in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/index.html (change path for other languages as appropriate). Online: The manual for the latest version of aptitude is usually available (in English) on the Debian website. The primary command is 'aptitude', as is the name of its primary Debian package. Apt's dependency resolver on the other hand is optimized for good 'one shot' solutions.

Score-based dependency resolver which is more suitable for interactive dependency resolution with additional hints from the user like 'I don't want that part of the solution but keep that other part of the solution for your next try'. apt-get and apt-cache) command line mode ('aptitude install foo') the ability to interactively retrieve and display the Debian changelog of all available official packagesĪpt-like (i.e.persistence of user actions (similar to dselect).preview of actions about to be taken with different colors marking different actions.Mark packages as 'automatically installed' or 'manually installed' so that packages can be auto-removed when no longer required (feature available in Apt, too, since quite a few Debian release) a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner.Aptitude is text based and run from a terminal.Īptitude has a number of useful features, including: Aptitude is an Ncurses and command-line based front-end to numerous Apt libraries, which are also used by Apt, the default Debian package manager.

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