Please set your mailer line wrap to 72 characters. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While > this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, > or is there a better way? From time to time I drop in to dselect to be > able to search and find packages, but if I try to select and install > from dselect the selections are not on par to additions made via > apt-get. Is there a way to sync the two, or am I just doing things the > hard way?
$ apt-get install apt-cache
$ man apt-cache
$ apt-cache search foo
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