aptitude on Linux: Interactive Package Manager
The aptitude command in Linux is a front-end based on the Ncurses library. It provides a nice "menu" graphical interface for installing packages on Debian and Ubuntu.
Aptitude has several useful features, including:
- Allows you to mark packages as "automatically installed" or "manually installed" so that packages can be automatically removed when they are no longer needed.
- Preview of actions about to be taken with different colors marking different actions.
- Retrieve and interactively display the Debian changelog of all available official packages.
- Score-based dependency resolver, best suited for interactive dependency resolution with additional user hints, such as "I don't want this part of the solution, but keep that other part of the solution for your next attempt".
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