Linux System Package Management summary

Aptitude:aptitude is a very magical package manager in the Debian Gnu/linux system, based on the famous APT mechanism, which integrates all the functions of Dselect and Apt-get and provides more features, especially in dependency processing.

Some problems apt-get can not solve, must use aptitude solution, some problems, with aptitude can not solve, must use Apt-get.

• Aptitude better Solution: Install, remove, reinstall (Apt-get without this function), show (Apt-get without this feature), search (Apt-get without this feature), hold (Apt-get no this feature) , Unhold (Apt-get without this function),
• Apt-get Better solution: Source (aptitude without this function), BUILD-DEP (low version of aptitude without BUILD-DEP function)
• Apt-get is no different from aptitude: Update, upgrade (Apt-get upgrade=aptitude Safe-upgrade, Apt-get dist-upgrade=aptitude Full-upgrgade)

Synaptic: Synaptic is a graphical front end for Debian and its derivative versions of the package management tool apt, such as the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Wajig:wajig is a simple software package management front-end, similar to Apt-get, but more features, it integrates Apt-get, dpkg and other Debian system software package management tools together, only with a wajig command to complete a variety of complex management work. Wajig is an additional installation of the software and requires Python support. The package management tool that comes with the base system is still apt-get. Install wajig with Apt-get install Wajig. It also has a gnome GUI front-end interface that allows you to complete all package management tasks with a mouse click.

Some of the Apt-get commands:

Update:update is used to synchronize local and server sources. The synchronized packages are obtained from the/etc/apt/sources.list. When using upgrade or Dist-upgrade, it is best to use the update command to get the latest package.

Install: Installs a new package.

Upgrade: Update all installed packages.

Dist-upgrade: Upgrade the system to a new release.

Clean,remove related commands previous blogs have written.

Linux System Package Management summary