I’m used to aptitude. On a daily basis.
I use it to udate/upgrade my system, and to look for infos on packages, mainly to help out people on ubuntuforums.
Searching the web for something else, I’ve found apt-cache madison. Woaw! One more tool I’m going to be using a lot…
From man apt-cache:
madison /[ pkg(s) ] apt-cache’s madison command attempts to mimic the output format and a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool, madison. It displays available versions of a package in a tabular format. Unlike the original madison, it can only display information for the architecture for which APT has retrieved package lists (APT::Architecture).
Example:
~$ apt-cache madison gimp gimp | 2.2.13-1ubuntu4.2 | http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages gimp | 2.2.13-1ubuntu4 | http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages gimp | 2.2.13-1ubuntu4 | http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources gimp | 2.2.13-1ubuntu4.2 | http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources
