Ade Malsasa Akbar contact
Senior author, Open Source enthusiast.
Monday, September 14, 2015 at 16:33

When you work with apt in Terminal, you probably want a powerful alternative. There is aptitude, an awesome front-end for apt. It gives us Terminal-style interface and also gives us command replacement to apt. By using aptitude interface, you can do point and click in Terminal to use its menu and buttons. It is very lightweight but powerful. This is how to install aptitude in Ubuntu 15.04.


Command

sudo apt-get install aptitude 

Explanation

  • It downloads 4 dependencies including aptitude itself.
  • It needs approximately 2 MB to download 12 MB to install.