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!

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

sudo apt-get autoremove

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