====== Ubuntu - aptitude ======

**aptitude** is a text-based interface to the package system.

It allows the user to view the list of packages and to perform package management tasks such as installing, upgrading, and removing packages.

  * Actions may be performed from a visual interface or from the command-line.

aptitude is a great alternative to [[Ubuntu:apt-get|apt-get]] and the best way to install, remove, upgrade, and otherwise administer packages on you system with apt.

  * aptitude solves orphaned dependencies and has a curses interface that blows the doors off of dselect.

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**NOTE:** aptitude uses many of the same commands as apt-get.

  * It is not a good idea to use both.
  * Use either aptitude or apt-get exclusively, or dependencies might get confused.

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[[Ubuntu:aptitude:aptitude cheat sheet|aptitude cheat sheet]]

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[[Ubuntu:aptitude:Advantages using aptitude instead of apt-get|Advantages using aptitude instead of apt-get]]

[[Ubuntu:aptitude:Hold a package|Hold a package]]

[[Ubuntu:aptitude:Unhold a package|Unhold a package]]