I have just started using Linux Mint and I have come across multiple ways to install packages from the command line: apt-get, aptitude, gdebi so far. Can someone explain what the major differences between them are?
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- Just see this here. askubuntu.com/questions/309113/…deaddroid– deaddroid2016-01-02 12:48:59 +00:00Commented Jan 2, 2016 at 12:48
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Heads up: this question is quite based on opinion. It all depends what you need.
They all do basically the same job (except dpkg, which doesn't install the other packages that a package depends on), but aptitude appears to have more features, none of which I regularly used when I had Mint, and apt has Super Cow Powers.
GDebi is a little different though. It's for installing deb packages you download from the internet, and it has a nice little GUI for installing the packages. The biggest difference between installing packages from GDebi and dpkg -i is that GDebi does install dependencies, so that takes a lot of time off using dpkg.
I also quite like Software Manager, it lets you search for things and browse from the comfort of a GUI, but it's slower than using a terminal.
