also don't forget apt-file (very useful to find out which package contains the library/binary you want to install) and dpkg -L to figure out what a particular p

also don't forget apt-file (very useful to find out which package contains the library/binary you want to install) and dpkg -L to figure out what a particular package installed on your system. I switched to debian some time ago and it's interesting so many different commands are used for package management, this said I personally have an alias ap=sudo aptitude -t jessie-backports alias and use that as a command line interface for search/install, and run the full aptitude gui only when doing updates