aptitude

- [Instructor] On Debian and Ubuntu systems, … Aptitude provides an interactive environment … to work with packages. … Like Apt, it works as a front end to depackage, … and it gives you an interface … to manage and explore packages directly. … In this video, … I'll show you a few basic tasks with Aptitude, … and I encourage you to dig into the man pages, … for a deeper look. … To use Aptitude, we need to make sure it's installed, … so I'll do that with my current package manager. … With apt install, aptitude. … Once that's done, I'll start it up with Aptitude. … Here in the interface, along the top, … there's a menu of options. … We can click on these items … if the terminal supports mouse input. … Or, use control T to toggle the menu, … and then navigate around with the arrow keys. … Moving around in here, … we can see the shortcut keys assigned to various functions, … like to install packages that have been marked to install, … or to update the list of packages. … And you can play a game of Minesweeper too …