Buddy 1.14 review

Tired of a broken package system after upgrading using dselect or aptitude? Buddy is a hardcore Debian package handler reduced to its

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 2K Developer: Marc O. Gloor

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Tired of a broken package system after upgrading using dselect or aptitude? Buddy is a hardcore Debian package handler reduced to its essential functions. Buddy is not intended as replacement for the common Debian package manager

Buddy is a tiny, fast, and proper Debian package handler which acts as a wrapper to apt-get and dpkg.

Every command is shown before it is executed. It has the ability to backup the package setup and simulate package manipulations (dry run).

Here are some key features of "Buddy":
package maintenance (backup, diagnostic, audit, cleanup, renew, repair)
package information (find/search, details, status, list, count)
package manipulation (install, uninstall, remove, purge, configure)

Advantages:
failover safe - simulate sensitive package manipulations (dry run)
more secure - backup your package-setup to be more reversible
faster - no packagelist loading at startup
more transparent - every command is shown before executed
completely shell based - no curses or other libraries needed

What's New in This Release:
This is a work in progress snapshot.