aptitude is a frontend for the APT suite of tools, with added functions that make it a little more like dselect, where it offers finer-grained dependency checking, and resolves dependencies with user assistance rather than autonomously. As such, itis sometimes more successful than dselect or apt-get in resolving dependencies in ways that require fewer major software changes. Uke dselect, it is menu-driven (using the curses interface), with command line functions as well. Due to the user assistance sometimes required for dependency resolution, it is less suited to unattended or automatic software updating. However, itwill frequently find simpler solutions, involving fewer changes, when compared to APT.
