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Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface.

Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface. It includes very powerful conflict resolution, and uses a very similar command-line syntax to apt. Often, its powerful resolution engine can help fix package trouble that apt cannot. It is part of the aptitude package.

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How to list manually installed packages?

I'd like to get a list of packages installed manually by apt or aptitude and be able to find out whether a foobar package was installed manually or automatically. How can we do that from the command line?
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Is aptitude still considered superior to apt-get?

When I first started with Ubuntu using aptitude was the 'in-thing', with some stated improvements over apt-get. Am I correct in saying that apt-get has now 'caught up' with aptitude, and it makes little difference which is used (although it is…
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Force update from unsigned repository

I'm using an unsigned repo in Ubuntu 16.04 from Debian multimedia: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main To install deb-multimedia-keyring, I'm running: apt-get update && apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring -y This gives an error: W:…
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What is the difference between dpkg and aptitude/apt-get?

When installing a software via dpkg -i packageA.deb, will the dependencies required by packageA be downloaded and installed automatically? How is this different from using apt-get or aptitude?
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How to remove/install a package that is not fully installed?

I went to install bsnes the other day and, for whatever reason, the installation failed. Now, I cannot update, install new packages, or do basically any apt-get commands as they all try to process this broken package and fail. Attempting to install…
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Make apt-get (or aptitude) run with -y but not prompt for replacement of configuration files?

When running apt-get -y install on Ubuntu 10.04 I would like apt-get (or aptitude if that makes it easier) to not prompt me when installing additional dependencies (behavior of -y as I understand it) and but not prompt me about…
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The following packages have unmet dependencies!

I am writing this because I am very confused about installing PostgreSQL 9.3 on my Ubuntu 14.04. First I need it for my Python/Django development, and I ran into the problem when I tried to install it. Now I have this error and it is driving me…
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How to remove warnings like `Unknown media type ...`

Each time apt-get tries to process triggers for shared-mime-info, it reports warnings like: ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type…
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How to see packages installed on a given date using 'aptitude'?

Does anyone know if there's an easy way to find a list of packages installed, sorted by date, when using aptitude (or apt-get)? I installed a bunch of packages to try something new, but it didn't work out. I'd like to remove all of these packages,…
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Assign highest priority to my local repository

Summary How can I make apt-get prefer local repository packages instead of downloading again the same package version from official repositories? The local repository is signed and trusted. We've already tried apt preferences priority. Original…
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apt-get or aptitude equivalent to yum whatprovides

Is there an equivalent to the yum "whatprovides" option in apt-get? For example on CentOS yum whatprovides /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png Tells me redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos.noarch : CentOS-related icons and pictures. Repo…
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Restoring all data and dependencies from dpkg --set-selections '*'

So I can run on one machine: dpkg --get-selections '*' > selection.txt On another machine: dpkg --set-selections < selection.txt ... followed by either of the following: aptitude install apt-get -u dselect-upgrade ... to install the packages…
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What's difference of apt-get and aptitude?

What is difference of apt-get and aptitude? Does both of them use same repositories? Which one is better?
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aptitude safe-upgrade equivalence with apt-get

Is there an equivalent to doing aptitude safe-upgrade using apt-get?
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How do I delete all packages which match a certain pattern?

I want to uninstall libreoffice. This program consists of about three dozen modules. Ideally, they could be removed with: aptitude remove libreoffice3.6* libreoffice-debian-menus libobasis3.6-* but that fails with Couldn't find any package whose…
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