Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Configuring the source code.

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi,

> BTW, you might also use aptitude instead of apt-get/apt-cache. As far
> as I know, it does the same thing in a slightly-easier-to-use way.

I always use aptitude myself, but apt-get is what is recommended on
Ubuntu.  The gui package tools on Ubuntu use apt-get rather than
aptitude, and it is advisable to stick with one or the other.

Aptitude used to have some significant advantages over apt-get, mainly
better tracking of automatically-installed packages (so that
installing and then uninstalling a package didn't leave one's system
with all the no-longer-needed dependencies still there).  For that
reason, aptitude has been preferred over apt-get on Debian for several
years.  For the most part, I use Debian rather than Ubuntu.

For whatever reason, Ubuntu has stuck with apt-get, but has also fixed
the tracking issues so that AFAIK there is no longer much of an
advantage to using aptitude.

Aptitude also has an ncurses interactive menu mode, but I always just
use it straight from the command line just like apt-get.

Cheers,

David