• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    14 hours ago

    It’s actually just personal experience, but I stopped using apt-get a few years back now because I noticed if I did apt after apt-get there would often be a bunch of packages it missed.

    Edit: looks like it might be because apt-get can’t satisfy dependencies install new packages when upgrading while apt can since apt is a suite of different apt tools rolled into one.

    • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
      10·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah I’m reading a little bit on it, and it seems like apt-get can’t install new packages during an upgrade. On initial reading I was thinking there were specific packages it couldn’t download or something, but this makes sense too. Regardless, this is news to me; I always assumed that apt and apt-get were the same process, just with apt-get having stable text output for awk’ing and apt being human-readable. I’ve been using nala for a long time anyway, but this is very useful knowledge.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      6·
      16 hours ago

      Wait what.

      apt-get is made for scripting, apt is interactive. Both should resolve dependencies. dpkg does not resolve them.

      But for interactive usage always use apt, guides using apt-get have no idea what they are doing