On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:46:42PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> > But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name
> > of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu
> > to search.
> I use both apt-get and dselect. If I want to browse what's available, or
> hunt down the name of a package I want to install, then I use dselect. If I
> already know the package's name, then I use apt-get.
if you just need the package tree you could use aptitude, or for wiping out
redundant packages do:
dpkg -l > foo
vi foo
so you can browse your packages an remove them by invoking a shell from
within vi.
for me it works just fine this way.
