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Aptitude Explained
March 12, 2019 By Chris Titus
In this article I am going over the aptitude command and explaining all of the commands and usage that goes with its usage.
Install Aptitude
Run the following command to install aptitude and task select: sudo apt install aptitude tasksel
Why Aptitude?
Aptitude provides greater dependency resolution and wildcard installations. Making installing or reinstalling entire packages far easier. For instance the following command installs KDE in a simple command: aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$
aptitude install
install one or more packages:
sudo aptitude install gedit
remove a package
sudo aptitude install gedit–
purge a package
sudo aptitude install gedit_
hold a package at its current version
sudo aptitude install gedit=
build dependencies for a package
sudo aptitude install gedit&BD
aptitude remove, purge, reinstall
These are the same as using the above commands under install, however, you can utilizing these independent commands with wildcards like below
sudo aptitude purge ^kde-desktop$
aptitude hold, unhold, keep
hold – is the same as the install, but again I like to use this long hand version when utilizing wildcards.
unhold – is a great way to release held packages
keep – I DO NOT USE because it merely cancelled scheduled tasks for that package… only it will continue to be upgraded later.
aptitude update, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade
update – updates the cache
safe-upgrade – upgrades all packages but will not remove unused packages
full-upgrade – upgrades all packages but WILL remove unused packages
aptitude search
search <package> – searches for the package, these search results can use wildcards, be sorted, and culled as needed using various options
search examples:
Search for packaged installed from outside stable repo
aptitude search ‘?narrow(?installed, !?archive(stable))’
Search for packages installed by the testing repo but not stable
aptitude search ‘?narrow(?installed, ?archive(testing) !?archive(stable))’
List installed packages
aptitude search ~i
List reverse dependencies for gedit
aptitude search ~Dgedit
show broken packages
aptitude search ~b
display packages on hold
aptitude search ~ahold
Find and install all packages with the name tightvnc in it
aptitude search ~ntightvnc
Install a specific version of a package
aptitude install “php=5.6”
aptitude show
aptitude show <package>
displays information about the package
aptitude why, why-not
aptitude why <package> – explains why a package can’t be installs because of a missing dependency
aptitude why-not <package> – show conflicts in which the package dependency can not be installed
aptitude clean and autoclean
aptitude clean – removes all previously downloaded packages from the cache directory
aptitude autoclean – removes cached packages which no longer exist in your repositories
Big thanks to Chris Titus for this as I got from his website
March 12, 2019 By Chris Titus
In this article I am going over the aptitude command and explaining all of the commands and usage that goes with its usage.
Install Aptitude
Run the following command to install aptitude and task select: sudo apt install aptitude tasksel
Why Aptitude?
Aptitude provides greater dependency resolution and wildcard installations. Making installing or reinstalling entire packages far easier. For instance the following command installs KDE in a simple command: aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$
aptitude install
install one or more packages:
sudo aptitude install gedit
remove a package
sudo aptitude install gedit–
purge a package
sudo aptitude install gedit_
hold a package at its current version
sudo aptitude install gedit=
build dependencies for a package
sudo aptitude install gedit&BD
aptitude remove, purge, reinstall
These are the same as using the above commands under install, however, you can utilizing these independent commands with wildcards like below
sudo aptitude purge ^kde-desktop$
aptitude hold, unhold, keep
hold – is the same as the install, but again I like to use this long hand version when utilizing wildcards.
unhold – is a great way to release held packages
keep – I DO NOT USE because it merely cancelled scheduled tasks for that package… only it will continue to be upgraded later.
aptitude update, safe-upgrade, full-upgrade
update – updates the cache
safe-upgrade – upgrades all packages but will not remove unused packages
full-upgrade – upgrades all packages but WILL remove unused packages
aptitude search
search <package> – searches for the package, these search results can use wildcards, be sorted, and culled as needed using various options
search examples:
Search for packaged installed from outside stable repo
aptitude search ‘?narrow(?installed, !?archive(stable))’
Search for packages installed by the testing repo but not stable
aptitude search ‘?narrow(?installed, ?archive(testing) !?archive(stable))’
List installed packages
aptitude search ~i
List reverse dependencies for gedit
aptitude search ~Dgedit
show broken packages
aptitude search ~b
display packages on hold
aptitude search ~ahold
Find and install all packages with the name tightvnc in it
aptitude search ~ntightvnc
Install a specific version of a package
aptitude install “php=5.6”
aptitude show
aptitude show <package>
displays information about the package
aptitude why, why-not
aptitude why <package> – explains why a package can’t be installs because of a missing dependency
aptitude why-not <package> – show conflicts in which the package dependency can not be installed
aptitude clean and autoclean
aptitude clean – removes all previously downloaded packages from the cache directory
aptitude autoclean – removes cached packages which no longer exist in your repositories
Big thanks to Chris Titus for this as I got from his website
