Tired of a broken package system after upgrading using dselect or aptitude? Buddy is a hardcore Debian package handler which acts as a wrapper to apt-get and dpkg. Every command is shown before it is executed. Buddy has the ability to backup the package setup and simulate package manipulations (dry run) and it is not intended as replacement for the common Debian package manager.
Main features
- package maintenance (backup, diagnostic, audit, cleanup,
renew, repair)
- package information (find/search, details, status, list,
count installed packages)
- package manipulation (install, uninstall, remove, purge,
configure)
Advantages
- simulation mode - able to simulate package manipulations (dry run)
- more transparent - every command is shown before it is executed
- more secure - backup your package-setup to be more reversible
- audit compliant - every package transaction is logged via syslog
- completely shell based - no curses or other libraries needed
- faster - no packagelist loading at startup
