[LBo] Removing KDE from Ubuntu depends on how you installed it.

[Billy Pollifrone]

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Troy wrote:
> 
> You bring up a good point about the many different ways to install packages
> in *buntu distributions.  For a newer Linux users like myself, can you give
> a brief overview of the history, difference, and pros and cons of aptitude,
> apt-get, and synaptic.
> 

Aptitude includes an ncurses interface as well as command line (ala
apt-get.) It handled automatic installed packages (dependencies) by
removing them when they are no longer required by another package. In
case of conflicts it suggests solutions. Putting a package on hold is
simple and upgrading doesn't try to update the held package.

Apt-get now has the functionality to remove dependencies automatically
and Synaptic has simple ways of holding a package back, so they are
pretty much trying to go in the same direction.

I've grown to like the ncurses interface of aptitude and use it all the
time, hiding it away in a Yakuake window when needed. Any of these
programs are just fine for package management. Adept is getting there.
It's still lacking in features and doesn't handle crashes well.

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Billy Pollifrone
billy @ silverbaseball . com
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