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APT vs APT-GET

Difference between APT vs APT-GET

• APT is a more user friendly tool when compared to APT-GET
• In all the latest debian based distros APT is already installed by default.

Lets take a look why APT is better when compare to APT-GET

Lets try to install firefox package using both APT and APT-GET

• You will notice APT does easy on the eyes, you get just enough information and also a nice little progress bar

• APT-GET is just effective and doesn’t provide the output in user-friendly format.

  

Lets try another comparision by search a telent package.

• You will notice with apt, all its options are located in one place. You can search with apt search telnet command.
• On the other hand, you cannot use search command with apt-get command. Instead, you have to use another tool called apt-cache search telnet.

• If you compare the results of the two commands, you will also see the apt-cache throws in a lot of extra information in the search result, which may not be really useful for the end user.