time setting in debian

[David Bandel]

On 2/23/06, Dallam Wych <dallam.wyche at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Collins,
>

[snip]

>
> 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.

Synaptic, aptitude, apt-get, dselect are all front ends for dpkg.  And
dpkg does the dependency tracking directly from the package file info
so _all_ Debian-based package tools have _always_ (since over 12 years
of using Debian) tracked all dependencies automagically.  It's only
RPM that ever had dependency problems (fixed finally? -- don't know, I
gave up on RPM when Caldera left us).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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