aptitude command on Linux (apt interface)

The aptitude command on Linux is a front-end based on the Ncurses library. It provides a cute graphical “menu” interface for the installation of packages on Debian and Ubuntu.

Aptitude has several useful features, including:

Allows you to mark packages as “automatically installed” or “manually installed” so that packages can be automatically removed when they are no longer needed.
Visualization of actions about to be taken with different colors marking different actions.
Retrieve and interactively display the Debian changelog for all available official packages.
Scoring-based dependency solver, best suited for interactive dependency resolution with additional user hints, such as “I don’t want that part of the solution, but keep that other part of the solution for your next attempt”.

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aptitude command on Linux (apt interface)

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