[nzlug] Follow-up to QT3 dev on Ubuntu

[Craig Box]

>> Looks like the Ubuntu QT3 development packages have now been updated,
>> so hopefully they'll install happily even without "aptitude".
> 
> From what I've seen, you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get
> for just about everything. I have encountered several situations in 
> which apt-get breaks badly, the most obvious examples being upgrading
> a distro between releases (eg, woody to sarge, although this wasn't
> bad, and any Ubuntu release seems to require aptitude for updates
> now).  However, I have also seen other situations which got apt-get
> fairly confused.     
> 
> I've heard reports of people submitting bugs regarding failures with
> apt-get and being told to use aptitude, and having the bugs closed. 
> 
> That said, I find it pretty hard to remember to type aptitude instead
> of apt-get... 

Remember, aptitude wasn't the problem, it was "broken mirrors".  It was
necessary to downgrade the installed qt3 version to match the older devel
packages it could see; the correct answer was "use the dapper-upgrades
repository either all or none of the time" :)  NZ Ubuntu mirrors are not
famous for being 100% up-to-date.

Given a situation that isn't upgrading a distro, I've never *had* to use
aptitude; it's nice that you can ask it to hold a package, for example, but
it only holds it in an aptitude-specific fashion (it doesn't stop apt-get
upgrading it).

Craig