Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith > > > Older versions of aptitude occasionally got confused about what > > was and wasn't automatically installed if you used other tools. It >

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-13 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/13/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith Older versions of aptitude occasionally got confused about what was and wasn't automatically installed if you used other tools. It shouldn't happen with an up-to-date aptitude as far

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages > > which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than > > apt

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages > which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than > aptitude at times. That's surprising, since I thought aptitude was built around the apt stuff. Which pack

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/12/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. > And all the packages for the console? Views -> New Debt

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. > And all the packages for the console? Views -> New Debtags Browser go to 'interface - commandline' . But you n

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 02:28:20AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-05-12, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And all the packages for the console? > > > > I don't know what this means. > I think he means non-X-based packages. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-12, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? Maybe the most convenient way is to use aptitude, which allows you to browse all packages, unless you're after a list you can feed to a script. Just run aptitude from the command line. If

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/12/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:36AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? > > > > Another list of all console packages in debian? > > > >

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:36AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? > > > > Another list of all console packages in debian? > > > > I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Deboo ^: > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? http://popcon.debian.org/ Definition of "usage" is tricky, though. J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc Descrip

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
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Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? > > Another list of all console packages in debian? > > I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source and how many have > packages? > > > Regards, > Deboo > The packages on

Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? Another list of all console packages in debian? I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source and how many have packages? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC