I love Aptitude, it is the best UI package manager for Ubuntu and Debian functionality wise. Since it is a curses library, it doesn't have a menu item to run it. So for those that also like Aptitude and want to be lazy about creating a menu for it, here you go.
Just save this content to ~/.local/share/applications/aptitude.desktop:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Aptitude GenericName= Comment=Aptitude Icon=/usr/share/icons/oxygen/64x64/apps/system-software-update.png Terminal=false Exec=gksu -- /usr/bin/gnome-terminal --title=Aptitude --command=/usr/bin/aptitude --geometry=150x37 Categories=System
Just tweak the geometry, which terminal you like and the Icon as you see fit.
