Re: problems in a net upgrade to Debian 8.1

Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> writes:

You really should not use both aptitude and apt-get, as they will in that case store separate 'hinting' records, i.e., they don't share that data. Thus, it's better to pick one tool or the other, rather than using both.

That was the case in Debian 6 (and maybe 7). Isn't it fixed as at Debian 8? viz. apt-mark.

I'm guessing the attraction of aptitude for you is its full-screen ncurses mode, reminiscent of dselect's.

See also: http://luv.asn.au/overheads/aptitude/aptitude-intro.html