====== Ubuntu - aptitude - Advantages using aptitude instead of apt-get ======

apt-get is a command-line package handling utility while aptitude is a high-level interface to the package manager.

There is not much difference between the two except aptitude will remove unused package dependencies automatically whereas with apt-get you have to do it manually.

Neither removes dependencies as that would cause problems.

  * Dependencies are packages that are depended on by other packages.
  * Do not remove them!

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**NOTE:**  To remove unused packages with apt-get use:

<code bash>
sudo apt-get autoremove
</code>

  * With aptitude there is nothing to do as it’s automatic.

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