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Posting for a friend lol (lemmy.world)
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[–] 48 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

apt is newer and mostly supersedes apt-get/apt-cache/etc tools, tries to be a more-approachable frontend.

They interoperate though, so if you're happy with using a mix of them, go for it. I generally just use apt.

EDIT: There were also some older attempts to produce a unified frontend, like aptitude.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    mostly supersedes apt-get/apt-cache/etc tools,

    Except for in scripts. Debian guarantee that the output format of apt-get will never change and thus it's safe to use in scripts that parse the output, whereas they don't have the same guarantee for apt, which can change between releases.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Aptitude is great (my favorite way of managing packages), but it's a TUI program. You can use it as CLI, at which point it mimics apt-get.

    So I would say it never attempted to unify apt commands, by rather it successfully provided a user friendly way to do most (all?) of what you could do with apt CLI tools.

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