time setting in debian

[Dallam Wych]

Hi Collins,

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:31:09PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> I presume that aptitude is gui and gnome based? Gnome is not my
> favorite desktop. Most of my life I've run xfce or IceWM, and right
> now I'm running KDE just to see what the other half is like.

Aptitude is just another front end for dpkg...as are apt and synaptic
and is run from the command line same as apt. Doesn't have anything
to do with any desktop or gui.

aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude install <package>
aptitude remove <package>

Works pretty much the same way in that regard.
One main difference is that aptitude keeps track of all package
dependencies. So lets say you aptitude install <package> and
<package> has six other packages as dependencies, aptitude remembers
these other packages. If you ever aptitude remove <package>,
aptitude will also remove the other six packages. I haven't used apt in a
long time, but I don't believe apt does that for you.

> Also, I've heard that it's a really bad idea to mix aptitude and
> apt-get, and the two apt-get commands mentioned above are pretty damn
> simple, expecially when all I have to do is up arrow in the Konsole
> window!

I don't know why it would be a bad idea, since they are just
different front ends. Might be a bit unusual to use both though.
It's nice to have choices :)

Kind Regards,
Dallam