• CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca
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      Whoa, do you have something to read up on that? I’d be extremely surprised, since apt-get is supposed to be the script-safe variant, i.e. I’d imagine it’s the more stable of the two.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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          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.

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          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

      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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        apt generally downloads more things than apt-get on my Debian machine. apt-get never broke anything, but I tend to eye it suspiciously now.

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      Legitimately didn’t know this and occasionally type apt-get just for a bit of frivolity