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		jwilk on Oct 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Debian the way it is? Indeed. The "apt" frontend was added in 2014 and included in a stable release in 2015. So I don't know what tool other than apt-get could "guides first written before 2015" use.

colanderman on Oct 8, 2023 [–]

aptitude. And before that, dselect (which I believe predated APT entirely).

cassianoleal on Oct 8, 2023 | [–]

Oh my, I don't miss the dselect days.

OTOH aptitude is, to this day, a joy to use.

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