Re: [SLUG] Question on Debian and apt-get

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 06:29:13 EST


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apt-cache search <package>
Usually I have to pipe this through less or something like that, since the
output is more than you can see on the screen. Another way to go is to use
something like aptitude or other graphical program to search for packages...

Russell

PS I hate dselect, but love apt-get (and Debian)!

On Friday 21 March 2003 06:15 am, Mike Manchester wrote:
> Is it possible to get a list of packages available for install? Say I
> want to list all the packages for vim. I know dselect does this but for
> some reason everytime I use dselect I trash my system. It seems dselect
> remembers things longer than I do. I had install xfree 3.3 and along 4.1
> and decided to uninstall xfree 3.3 well dselect uninstalled everything
> associated with X for some reason. I couldn't figure out how to restore
> everything because the xfree 3.3 was no longer showing up, so I
> reinstalled for the 8th time. I'm bound and determined to get a working
> debian system. The other think with dselect. I wish there was away in
> dselect to list what it thinks it's going to do before you tell it to
> install.
>
>
> With Redhat I could while in a console use the mouse to select text on
> the screen and paste to the command line. How can I do this with Debian?
>
> Thanks
> Mike M.

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