Debian Planet has posted a quick introduction to Aptitude

If you haven't already, you should stop what you're doing right now and type:

apt-get

install

aptitude

I'm continually amazed by aptitude, a wonderful and worthy replacement for the venerable dselect. With all of the "installing Debian" articles out there, it's amazing we don't see aptitude mentioned more often. If more of those writers knew about it, perhaps they would complain less about boot-floppies.

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