Haha, I have done some things to Debian that Arch users would go... "well if you are going to do that... just use Arch"... I'm doing an Debian update later in the week and you will see Arch's influence at play. It spoiled me in some aspects and I've done some modifications to get that experience back.
@@ChrisTitusTech well i used windows before arch, so i have nothing against customization(especially when its so easy compared to windows, no hacks in the registry). and i would say that there are some parts about arch i like and some i don't. well anyways the only experience i have had with debian is trow ubuntu, windows sub system(a.k.a ubuntu) and mint also ubuntu based ^^ so only ubuntu XD
@@peterjansen4826 well... one beer, raid0 efi arch i3, what could have gone wrong? oh, right almost the first time install arch, on hardware the first time 😂
Haha, you may of been joking, but technically it does with Linux Subsystem for Windows. You can install the package from the Windows store and then install aptitude from bash shell and away you go ;) Anything is possible, the only people that tell you otherwise just lack the imagination to make it happen.
@@ChrisTitusTech haha great replay! I love linux, it really makes you apriciate more a O.S, compared to the standards like windows. Saludos desde CostaRica!
apt search , search for a package, if you have a general idea of what your looking. If you want to view details before installing it use apt show 'pkg name'. You want to make use of your tab key here also, this is how you will discover a bunch of software, on accident. If you type the first few letters of a word after apt show and then tap tab twice it will list all of the packages that you MIGHT be looking for, both installed and not installed packages. For example type apt show lib (then tap tab twice) you will get a ton of options. apt install -f will fix any broken or incomplete packages, and or dpkg --configure -a. Plus APT has Super Cow Powers ! lol , type sudo apt install cowsay -y , then cowsay 'apppppppppt' ; ) . Anyone using a 32-bit version of Debian or Ubuntu should check out the apt-fast ppa , it works faster with less output, and its a little more colorful and better for keeping logs if you like to do that sort of thing. Yes its possible to use Ubuntu ppa's in Debian in case anyone was wondering I'm not going to type out all the commands, you can get it here linuxconfig.org/install-packages-from-an-ubuntu-ppa-on-debian-linux . This is a good site when experiencing technical difficulties or curiosities.. Still a good video and a valuable alternative. OH and if you want to get rid of something and its dependencies and config files its ' sudo apt remove --purge theprogram' and it will locate everything and get rid of it. Aptitude is a shorter command and more verbose about doing the same process, its a matter of preference. Also Chris's video n using the 'find' command is great , another good one to use is 'locate' for a file or 'whereis' to find the whereabouts of a package on your system.
Hey chris for somereason the 99% of the distro i install always give me a bug in somepoint and make a app unable to uninstall, i nearly give up on linux, but suddenly someone recommend me linux mint and at this point zero bugs so far soo im happy and thx to god i dont go back to windows (or hacknistosh)
Last I checked the Debian website they say officially use apt to upgrade distributions that aptitude is not safe for dist-upgrade on the official upgrade to a new distribution webpage for Debian. www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-full and www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations
thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. very informative video. i remember the last time you did a video on apparmor. :) don't forget to configure your apparmor on your debian now, and your firewall. those two pretty much makes a good security combination. and congratulations to you again for sticking to debian :) as for me, im still working on improving my linux skills and im sticking to Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 haha. thank you so much.
APT handles immediate dependencies where Aptitude adds another layer to resolve dependencies. It simply does a better job and goes past what APT is capable of.
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't make sense, not only because I've never had any issues with apt, but because apt is the package manager and has been so for decades. Handling dependencies is pretty much what it does. Yes it is true the aptitude implements certain features that apt doesn't, which is one reason I much prefer pacman over apt, but they're strictly necessary as far as I can gather. Aptitude keeps track of whether a packages is installed manually or not and may provide dependency options, like gtk or qt, alsa or pulse, etc. These features really should be implemented, but as I said, I've never had any issues. Also, these "features" pacman provide out of the box. ;) Other than that I have nothing against Aptitude, I just don't understand your point about dependencies, which is not to say you aren't correct. I may well be daft, but there you have it.
Cheers, switching immediately. Just fyi, bulletting on the linked article has gone pretty wild with a bunch of extra bullets at the end of a list and sometimes (like in search) for every item instead of every second one. Is that rogue markdown at play?
Great suggestion Peter! I'm going to be doing a bashrc write up soon with custom shell commands and aliases. I'll be sure and show off this alias in there.
@@ChrisTitusTech That is useful for most of the viewers, and probably also fun because it makes using the CLI easier. Another interesting future project: writing an install and configuration script for all the software which you can use for multiple distros. Apparently Ansible facilitates that. Part 1 of an article on this: opensourcecom/article/18/3/manage-workstation-ansible Part 2 opensource.com/article/18/3/manage-your-workstation-configuration-ansible-part-2 Part 3 opensource.com/article/18/5/manage-your-workstation-ansible-part-3 I haven't looked at the details yet but it seems interesting. And maybe Starcraft2 on Linux sometime. It is a popular game tying people to Windows. I am curious if you can install it the same way as Diablo3, both are Blizzard games.
Would you still recommend aptitude in 2024? I installed it for the first time in a few years on a new Debian 12 install, as I prefer an interactive TUI for package management, but it seemed ... odd. It wasn't surfacing search results in the default repos that I knew would come up if I executed an "apt search" at the terminal.
Bro! Am suffering! check this apt issue on a 2018 kali linux distro: I accidentally uninstalled gsettings-desktop-schemas after normal install failed You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: eog : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 2.91.92) but it is not installed evince : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed gdm3 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed gedit : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed glib-networking : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed gnome-control-center : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.2) but it is not installed gnome-core : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.22) but it is not installed gnome-logs : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed gnome-session-bin : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed gnome-settings-daemon : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.90) but it is not installed gnome-shell : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.90) but it is not installed gnome-software : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.18) but it is not installed gnome-terminal : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 0.1.0) but it is not installed gnome-tweaks : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.28) but it is not installed libgnome-desktop-3-17 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.0) but it is not installed libmutter-3-0 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.15.92) but it is not installed mousetweaks : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 0.1.0) but it is not installed mutter : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.21.4) but it is not installed nautilus : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.8.0) but it is not installed orca : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed totem : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Nope. I tend to use zypper. But then I don't use a Debian based system, as you could guess. My short use of Mint was something of a disaster, apt and Aptitude pretty much caused my eventual move back to openSUSE where the combination of zypper, Apper and YaST2 really works well. But then I don't evangelise the use of RPM over DEB. Not worth it.
4:39 - Hahaha... You're cat looks just like mine. He's resting right now beside. My brain thought he was hunting around your house like how he loves to do mine. My cat, Smokey, is a World Champion Mouser and has killed snakes we didn't even know we had in the basement... I'll always keep a cat like him from here on...
Haha so true. sudo apt-get install kino -> (Doesn't work) sudo aptitude install kino -> Would you like me to do the following stuff to get this shit working? :).
Thanks for that! I'm installing aptitude right now! A couple of questions, though. Can I use it to download and install a different desktop and switch between them? Also, could you cover installing the .tar.gz packages too? Thanks
Yes and Yes. You install the package of choice and then use the Display Manager to switch between something like KDE and GNOME. Technically, I have a very bloated install with 3 desktop environments. Its not recommended, but I like to switch from time to time.
@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah I never recommend more then 2. I once broke my Ubuntu install when I installed 4 desktop environments, I was able to fix it without a reinstall but it took me like 3 hours to manually remove all packages from 2 different environments, in CLI recovery mode before I got it to run correctly. Ubuntu is more susceptible to this, but something to keep in mind.
Brilliant thanks for the explanation Serge! Now I want to keep installing DEs until things break under one user. I think I have some kind of disorder where I must break things and fix them.
I thought it was much older than apt and essentially deprecated and unnecessary and that's why Ubuntu removed it way back. :s Eh, I'm on Manjaro anways and pretty much always use Pamac.
I don't use Debian/Ubuntu based distributions so this is inapplicable (I historically use Fedora, but lately been running Manjaro). But even as nice as aptitude is, it's still not as good as dnf.
So what is difference between apt-get and apt? cause I thought apt was beautifying apt-get, LOL, now there is something beatifying apt again. Soon we won't need to type to install software, we would just speak, "install firefox"....Terminal does the rest. LOL
have you tried snapd to install apps I find some software that's not available in synaptic or aptitude can be install by searching how to install in debian 9 and sudo snap install app name.
I found that the packages "mate-desktop-environment" and "mint-meta-mate" show as broken packages, but I haven't noticed any issues. Should I just leave it?
Very helpful Chris I didn't even know this program existed. What's more it's already in Linux Mint! Is there a graphical frontend to it like Synaptic? Synaptic has always been my -reason I won't touch Arch- goto app for installs.
I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on Aptitude. I have never liked aptitude in Ubuntu, I find it causes problems when upgrading my distro to the newest version in Ubuntu (I don't stay with the LTS, I upgrade every 6 months), I know while upgrading I could switch to APT to run the initial updates then switch back but I just find it's not worth the hassle. Also I just find it's commands weird to use. If someone wants to use aptitude I'm not going to knock them for it, it's just not for me. I guess I'm just set in my ways because I've used APT for a long ass time, for what I do I find APT works just fine.
LOL funny thing just happened, I am running MX Linux on this computer, I went to download Aptitude and it said I already had it uploaded, I type the command 'sudo aptitude update' and sure enough it went through an update......wow! thank you Chris I love learning about Linux and you are a great teacher!
well that lady still thinks her and the pool boy are 100 percent on. Now that I got that off my chest. I love this video I'm still learning and trying to memorize and am currently looking stuff up on the web. I didn't know about aptitude until a few months ago. We need more videos like this it was very helpful and informative.
i wasn't able to find either in my repositories anyways LOL pacman :) still a good little video though , im sure people who actually can use this information will find it very informative.
first, I must say that I am relieved that you are not the "comedian" Chris Titus... excellent content, thank you. question, is there a short cut to use to fill in the whole aptitude name so it does not have to be laborious typing in the whole word? Yes I am lazy.
Thanks very much for this. The other year I was installing something, can't remember, but the instructions were to use 'aptitude' and I have been puzzled by this since. Now you have cleared up a few points for me. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the great video, Chris! More like this, please. Aptitude is of a great help for me cause it can be run on a PC without any GUI. Add to it Midnight Commander and you can do anything without any GUI.
running arch, still watch for good entertainment ^^
Haha, I have done some things to Debian that Arch users would go... "well if you are going to do that... just use Arch"... I'm doing an Debian update later in the week and you will see Arch's influence at play. It spoiled me in some aspects and I've done some modifications to get that experience back.
@@ChrisTitusTech well i used windows before arch, so i have nothing against customization(especially when its so easy compared to windows, no hacks in the registry).
and i would say that there are some parts about arch i like and some i don't. well anyways the only experience i have had with debian is trow ubuntu, windows sub system(a.k.a ubuntu) and mint also ubuntu based ^^ so only ubuntu XD
Did you install Arch while you were drunk? :)
@Chris
Cool, it makes Debian more accessible for us spoiled Arch users.
@@peterjansen4826 well... one beer, raid0 efi arch i3, what could have gone wrong? oh, right almost the first time install arch, on hardware the first time 😂
Does this work in windows?
Jk
Haha, you may of been joking, but technically it does with Linux Subsystem for Windows. You can install the package from the Windows store and then install aptitude from bash shell and away you go ;) Anything is possible, the only people that tell you otherwise just lack the imagination to make it happen.
@@ChrisTitusTech haha great replay! I love linux, it really makes you apriciate more a O.S, compared to the standards like windows. Saludos desde CostaRica!
For windows, you might wanna take a look at chocolatey at chocolatey.org/
@@ChrisTitusTech ... you should have just said YES. ;)
my favorite way to upgrade Windows is boot a Linux installer :OP
THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE MANAGER 👊👊
I love it! This is one of your best videos yet, Chris. Keep up the great content! Cheers!
pacman
zypper
@@terranrepublican5522 yes that's good too
By the way APT stands for "Advanced Packaging Tool"
what did the -get stand for
@@debeeriz To get a package (download and install it).
@@themedleb thats a bit naff, then it should be apt-dia, i was expecting something along the lines of Go Expidite Terminal
I am laughing and crying keep them coming , once again we are reminded , that we have such a variety and choice in Linux , what a great OS ......
Will you make a system presentation video ? Because, damn, that computer is sexy.
You got it Arno!
I thought that apt and aptitude were the same program. You are awesome, subbed
apt search , search for a package, if you have a general idea of what your looking. If you want to view details before installing it use apt show 'pkg name'. You want to make use of your tab key here also, this is how you will discover a bunch of software, on accident. If you type the first few letters of a word after apt show and then tap tab twice it will list all of the packages that you MIGHT be looking for, both installed and not installed packages. For example type apt show lib (then tap tab twice) you will get a ton of options. apt install -f will fix any broken or incomplete packages, and or dpkg --configure -a. Plus APT has Super Cow Powers ! lol , type sudo apt install cowsay -y , then cowsay 'apppppppppt' ; ) . Anyone using a 32-bit version of Debian or Ubuntu should check out the apt-fast ppa , it works faster with less output, and its a little more colorful and better for keeping logs if you like to do that sort of thing. Yes its possible to use Ubuntu ppa's in Debian in case anyone was wondering I'm not going to type out all the commands, you can get it here linuxconfig.org/install-packages-from-an-ubuntu-ppa-on-debian-linux . This is a good site when experiencing technical difficulties or curiosities.. Still a good video and a valuable alternative. OH and if you want to get rid of something and its dependencies and config files its ' sudo apt remove --purge theprogram' and it will locate everything and get rid of it. Aptitude is a shorter command and more verbose about doing the same process, its a matter of preference. Also Chris's video n using the 'find' command is great , another good one to use is 'locate' for a file or 'whereis' to find the whereabouts of a package on your system.
Nice video, Chris. FYI: Getting 404 Page Not Found error on your Aptitude Commands (Full Article) link.
In the early days of debian, this was called dselect :)
Hey chris for somereason the 99% of the distro i install always give me a bug in somepoint and make a app unable to uninstall, i nearly give up on linux, but suddenly someone recommend me linux mint and at this point zero bugs so far soo im happy and thx to god i dont go back to windows (or hacknistosh)
Great to hear Zeta!
Last I checked the Debian website they say officially use apt to upgrade distributions that aptitude is not safe for dist-upgrade on the official upgrade to a new distribution webpage for Debian. www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-full and www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations
thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. very informative video. i remember the last time you did a video on apparmor. :) don't forget to configure your apparmor on your debian now, and your firewall. those two pretty much makes a good security combination. and congratulations to you again for sticking to debian :) as for me, im still working on improving my linux skills and im sticking to Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 haha. thank you so much.
Good to hear! Love Linux mint.
Great video, do you have a video or point me to a great video that deals with as you said, dependency hell. That has been an on going issue for me.
Just run 'sudo apt remove *' 😏
Isnt aptitude deprecated?
Not that I am aware of. The project doesn't see that many updates with the latest version pushed out 18 months ago, but still works better than apt.
Great video, you're fast becoming the Linux Guru we've all been waiting for.....
Yeah a linux guru (easy understable human edition.) Thats why he is great
Link to article is broken, here is the working one: christitus.com/aptitude-explained/
4:39
Could you also compare apt and apt-get commands? I think this would be interesting too. :)
Btw instead of gedit I recommend medit. It's a fork of gedit which has a bit better functionality.
since when does apt not handle dependencies?
APT handles immediate dependencies where Aptitude adds another layer to resolve dependencies. It simply does a better job and goes past what APT is capable of.
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't make sense, not only because I've never had any issues with apt, but because apt is the package manager and has been so for decades. Handling dependencies is pretty much what it does. Yes it is true the aptitude implements certain features that apt doesn't, which is one reason I much prefer pacman over apt, but they're strictly necessary as far as I can gather.
Aptitude keeps track of whether a packages is installed manually or not and may provide dependency options, like gtk or qt, alsa or pulse, etc. These features really should be implemented, but as I said, I've never had any issues.
Also, these "features" pacman provide out of the box. ;)
Other than that I have nothing against Aptitude, I just don't understand your point about dependencies, which is not to say you aren't correct. I may well be daft, but there you have it.
@@theignorantphilosopher4855 I use arch BTW
Enjoyed the video, But I will stick to DNF....... :P
Switching to aptitude after this.
Great and informative video, as always!
Wow what's that terminal you are using and what's the theme? Looks incredible
Terminator - No theme, just custom colors and then a heavily modified bashrc file with fonts-powerline package.
@@ChrisTitusTech Yeh, that bash prompt probably is the coolest one I have ever seen.....
Even though I am a gentoo user, I really enjoy this video.
Cheers, switching immediately.
Just fyi, bulletting on the linked article has gone pretty wild with a bunch of extra bullets at the end of a list and sometimes (like in search) for every item instead of every second one. Is that rogue markdown at play?
Nope, damn wordpress and its crappy editor. I'll go and clean this up a bit.
I would alias "aptitude" to "apt".
Great suggestion Peter! I'm going to be doing a bashrc write up soon with custom shell commands and aliases. I'll be sure and show off this alias in there.
@@ChrisTitusTech
That is useful for most of the viewers, and probably also fun because it makes using the CLI easier.
Another interesting future project: writing an install and configuration script for all the software which you can use for multiple distros. Apparently Ansible
facilitates that.
Part 1 of an article on this:
opensourcecom/article/18/3/manage-workstation-ansible
Part 2
opensource.com/article/18/3/manage-your-workstation-configuration-ansible-part-2
Part 3
opensource.com/article/18/5/manage-your-workstation-ansible-part-3
I haven't looked at the details yet but it seems interesting.
And maybe Starcraft2 on Linux sometime. It is a popular game tying people to Windows. I am curious if you can install it the same way as Diablo3, both are Blizzard games.
Would you still recommend aptitude in 2024? I installed it for the first time in a few years on a new Debian 12 install, as I prefer an interactive TUI for package management, but it seemed ... odd. It wasn't surfacing search results in the default repos that I knew would come up if I executed an "apt search" at the terminal.
Bro! Am suffering! check this apt issue on a 2018 kali linux distro:
I accidentally uninstalled gsettings-desktop-schemas after normal install failed
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
eog : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 2.91.92) but it is not installed
evince : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
gdm3 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
gedit : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
glib-networking : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
gnome-control-center : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.2) but it is not installed
gnome-core : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.22) but it is not installed
gnome-logs : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
gnome-session-bin : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
gnome-settings-daemon : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.90) but it is not installed
gnome-shell : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.90) but it is not installed
gnome-software : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.18) but it is not installed
gnome-terminal : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 0.1.0) but it is not installed
gnome-tweaks : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.28) but it is not installed
libgnome-desktop-3-17 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.27.0) but it is not installed
libmutter-3-0 : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.15.92) but it is not installed
mousetweaks : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 0.1.0) but it is not installed
mutter : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.21.4) but it is not installed
nautilus : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.8.0) but it is not installed
orca : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
totem : Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Nope. I tend to use zypper. But then I don't use a Debian based system, as you could guess. My short use of Mint was something of a disaster, apt and Aptitude pretty much caused my eventual move back to openSUSE where the combination of zypper, Apper and YaST2 really works well. But then I don't evangelise the use of RPM over DEB. Not worth it.
4:39 - Hahaha... You're cat looks just like mine. He's resting right now beside. My brain thought he was hunting around your house like how he loves to do mine. My cat, Smokey, is a World Champion Mouser and has killed snakes we didn't even know we had in the basement... I'll always keep a cat like him from here on...
Haha so true. sudo apt-get install kino -> (Doesn't work) sudo aptitude install kino -> Would you like me to do the following stuff to get this shit working? :).
Thanks for that! I'm installing aptitude right now!
A couple of questions, though. Can I use it to download and install a different desktop and switch between them? Also, could you cover installing the .tar.gz packages too?
Thanks
Yes and Yes. You install the package of choice and then use the Display Manager to switch between something like KDE and GNOME. Technically, I have a very bloated install with 3 desktop environments. Its not recommended, but I like to switch from time to time.
@@ChrisTitusTech Yeah I never recommend more then 2. I once broke my Ubuntu install when I installed 4 desktop environments, I was able to fix it without a reinstall but it took me like 3 hours to manually remove all packages from 2 different environments, in CLI recovery mode before I got it to run correctly. Ubuntu is more susceptible to this, but something to keep in mind.
Brilliant thanks for the explanation Serge! Now I want to keep installing DEs until things break under one user. I think I have some kind of disorder where I must break things and fix them.
Every package manager thinks it's the best lol
I thought it was much older than apt and essentially deprecated and unnecessary and that's why Ubuntu removed it way back. :s
Eh, I'm on Manjaro anways and pretty much always use Pamac.
I don't use Debian/Ubuntu based distributions so this is inapplicable (I historically use Fedora, but lately been running Manjaro). But even as nice as aptitude is, it's still not as good as dnf.
Hello
could you please share your sources.list file? I always have problems with repositories :/
thank you for this video... :)
Can I install a local package with aptitude? Or should I just use dpkg and then something like sudo aptitude install -f (like with apt-get)?
Another reason to stop using Debian and its derivatives. Arch and it’s derivatives are so superior. PPA’s suck also on Ubuntu based systems.
So what is difference between apt-get and apt? cause I thought apt was beautifying apt-get, LOL, now there is something beatifying apt again. Soon we won't need to type to install software, we would just speak, "install firefox"....Terminal does the rest. LOL
apt is apt-get and aptitude is different from apt. I'm looking forward to saying "Hey Tux! Install firefox"
too much sudo .. just run as root ... sudo su ............. lol jk Good show
Lol ;)
If i use sudo aptitude full-upgrade.. It mean that my debian become new one?
have you tried snapd to install apps I find some software that's not available in synaptic or aptitude can be install by searching how to install in debian 9 and sudo snap install app name.
How did you display your username/hostname in that fancy way in the terminal?
well very interesting i might start using it
>.>
I type aptitude n received a command not found error.. I have already installed aptitude
This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers, so I must continue to use apt-get.
I'm assuming this works on Debian based distros such as Ubuntu and Mint?
Is it possible to replace apt commands with aptitude by alias. How can i do that.?
Huh, I thought aptitude is apt's predecessor
I use the GUI for most things but when I need to I’ll use this.
Yeah. Aptitude has better dependency resolve engine.
Great, thanks!! I heard about aptitude but thought it is the same as apt. If it is so much better/easier, why are its functions not ported to apt?
Good question...
I think this video be done better totally plastered......
my aptitude doesn't show upgraded or updated packages
How much find upgrade takes ?
I found that the packages "mate-desktop-environment" and "mint-meta-mate" show as broken packages, but I haven't noticed any issues. Should I just leave it?
sudo apt install gedit is easier to type than sudo aptitude install gedit
I use aptitude since 2008, when I started to use debian
Page not Found for Aptitude Articles
Very helpful Chris I didn't even know this program existed. What's more it's already in Linux Mint! Is there a graphical frontend to it like Synaptic? Synaptic has always been my -reason I won't touch Arch- goto app for installs.
Hey you have the same kde widget like mine it's really cool but gives wrong memory usage
Its not a 100% but gives a good ballpark. I still like seeing it, just in case I get a runaway process.
My only problem with aptitude is that it is slower.
Next episode. Stop using aptitude use pacman.
great video. Thank you.
WWOOWW! APTitude was already installed but tasksel wasn't. oh, yyeeah.
Instead of using sudo every time for your package manager you should create a alias like aptitude='sudo aptitude'
or just run sudo -s and run everything as root if you are doing maintenance and you won't have to type sudo every time. This is what I do
I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on Aptitude. I have never liked aptitude in Ubuntu, I find it causes problems when upgrading my distro to the newest version in Ubuntu (I don't stay with the LTS, I upgrade every 6 months), I know while upgrading I could switch to APT to run the initial updates then switch back but I just find it's not worth the hassle. Also I just find it's commands weird to use. If someone wants to use aptitude I'm not going to knock them for it, it's just not for me. I guess I'm just set in my ways because I've used APT for a long ass time, for what I do I find APT works just fine.
What if I use pacman?
Btw I use arch
Gosh, that does look a lot better. I guess it's similar to the difference between TOP and HTOP. Lol. Much appreciated, many thanks. :)
LOL funny thing just happened, I am running MX Linux on this computer, I went to download Aptitude and it said I already had it uploaded, I type the command 'sudo aptitude update' and sure enough it went through an update......wow! thank you Chris I love learning about Linux and you are a great teacher!
You still used apt instead of aptitude? :)
What are you using to make your prompt path look like that?
My bashrc file looks like a word explosion and is like 400+ lines long. However it all starts with the package fonts-powerline
@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks!
@@ChrisTitusTech could you post instructions on setting up the prompt somewhere or do a video on it. i love the look of it
I do linux.. I do ./configure -- && make && make install and I know what goes onto my machine.
none of this windows conversion therapy...
Dependencies? Do I need to go on a Beer Run to understand this video?
You should go on a beer run before watching any of my videos ;)
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Nice black cat.
well that lady still thinks her and the pool boy are 100 percent on. Now that I got that off my chest. I love this video I'm still learning and trying to memorize and am currently looking stuff up on the web. I didn't know about aptitude until a few months ago. We need more videos like this it was very helpful and informative.
i wasn't able to find either in my repositories anyways LOL
pacman :)
still a good little video though , im sure people who actually can use this information will find it very informative.
first, I must say that I am relieved that you are not the "comedian" Chris Titus... excellent content, thank you.
question, is there a short cut to use to fill in the whole aptitude name so it does not have to be laborious typing in the whole word?
Yes I am lazy.
Wow ... thanks Chris , i am now a convert and love the functionality and application ... cheers mate 🤟
that was sooo helpful!
Thanks for this!
I didn't know what aptitude could do so I never considered switching to it.
What about pkcon?
Ubuntu used to have it pre-installed before 10.04. I remember using it in 9.04!
Sorry! Just seen it.
0:03 Meanwhile in a parallel universe where Luke Smith uses Debian-based distributions.
can't install on wsl
meh prefer portage
_watches video discovers gedit plug ins, installs it with apt_
Thanks very much for this. The other year I was installing something, can't remember, but the instructions were to use 'aptitude' and I have been puzzled by this since. Now you have cleared up a few points for me. Thanks a lot.
Do you know de wei?
Aptitude command is awesome thanks Chris.
black cat.
Does he have an instagram page? Can you share with it? Anybody?
Is you cat pregnant?
They are both males... So I hope not!
Wow! What a surprise!! Thanks so much 😀
Thanks for the great video, Chris! More like this, please. Aptitude is of a great help for me cause it can be run on a PC without any GUI. Add to it Midnight Commander and you can do anything without any GUI.
I really like the way the prompt looks on your Terminator
any tips for how I can get mine to look like that?