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Installing Wine with aptitude

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I'm trying to install Wine on Ubuntu Precise. I'm used to using aptitude for package management, so I tried to use that to install Wine. When I do that, I'm told I have to resolve dependencies that end up leaving me with 21 packages being uninstalled! However, when I try to install with apt-get, it appears to work fine.

What's going on? Will it work right if I install Wine through apt-get? Will it break aptitude? Why is this happening?

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answered 3 Years ago eryeath · Accepted Answer

The way I see it is that "aptitude" actually is running something of an equivalent of "apt-get autoremove" before downloading and installing wine. Its trying to remove dependencies first which it thinks is no longer in use but somehow its causing interference with installation of wine.

"apt-get" on the other hand doesn't require this. It'll only remove dependencies which are not in use if you explicitly tell it by running "apt-get autoremove".

"aptitude" no doubt is a bit feature rich than "apt-get", but if you get the desired result through "apt-get", I see no reason not to use it.

And in my opinion, "apt-get" shouldn't break "aptitude".