Aptitude

Aptitude

Aptitude serves as a text-based front-end for Debian’s package management, leveraging Ncurses to enhance user interaction in the terminal. It offers a flexible, mutt-like syntax for package matching, advanced dependency resolution with user input, and the ability to mark packages for automatic removal, all while providing a colorful preview of actions.

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