Who even uses apt-get these days?

Yeah apt-get is so old it officially misses packages that apt… gets.

Whoa, do you have something to read up on that? I'd be extremely surprised, since apt-get is supposed to be the script-safe variant, i.e. I'd imagine it's the more stable of the two.

It’s actually just personal experience, but I stopped using apt-get a few years back now because I noticed if I did apt after apt-get there would often be a bunch of packages it missed.

Edit: looks like it might be because apt-get can’t satisfy dependencies install new packages when upgrading while apt can since apt is a suite of different apt tools rolled into one.

Wait what.

apt-get is made for scripting, apt is interactive. Both should resolve dependencies. dpkg does not resolve them.

But for interactive usage always use apt, guides using apt-get have no idea what they are doing

You’re right, I misspoke, it’s that it can’t install new packages, it can only upgrade existing ones. I guess I was thinking the only reason it would need to install new packages was if that was a new dependency.