Thursday Jul 20

When you get sick of apt-get/cache

(13:14:24) Molly: I’m using a debian box here at anu, and i got sick of apt-​get and apt-​cache being 2 seper­ate com­mands so i wrote a basic bash scipt that wraps them both, i called it aptget. So now i can aptget search blah or aptget install blah; even aptget install -f. I did it to all com­mands shown in apt-​get — help and apt-​cache — help, and was lazy with the options. Haven’t tested em all yet, i only ever use aptget install|search|update etc.. :D

Lollers, sounds like apt-rpm/apt4rpm. :D

Edit: And here is Molly’s script, GPLed and all. ;)

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3 comments

  1. 1. Chris
    Jul 20, 13:01

    Instead of “aptget” you should have made it “emerge” :P -c

  2. 2. Matt (Molly)
    Jul 20, 13:03

    Thanks klepas,

    Just a NOTE: The script works from the little testing i have given it, but i haven’t added any error check­ing etc, so there could be bugs! You’ve all been warned.

    Feel free to fix any­thing up, or let me know and i _may_ fix it. I’m not a debian or ubuntu user so it is not some­thing i’m worried about :)

  3. 3. Pete
    Jul 20, 16:46

    Add a useful curses inter­face, and mix in some of the func­tion­al­ity of debor­phan, and you’d wind up with apti­tude.

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