Re: Is there a way to determine

2004-06-25 Thread Silvan
On Friday 25 June 2004 04:42 pm, Kent West wrote: > >try apt-cache search > > Or aptitude for a menu-driven experience. > > Or synaptic for an X-based gui-driven experience. > > Or dselect for the older menu-driven experience. > > Or .. or .. or .. Or... ftp some.debian.mirror cd debian/dists/s

Re: Is there a way to determine

2004-06-25 Thread Ben Russo
Douglas Phillipson wrote: Sorry for the newbie question. I'm new to the Debian package management system. Is there a way to determine what packages are available from If you have X-windows installed... run: apt-get install synaptic; synaptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Is there a way to determine

2004-06-25 Thread Kent West
Santiago de Ledesma wrote: Douglas Phillipson wrote: Is there a way to determine what packages are available from the repositories I have in sources.list? I use dpkg --list to see what's installed, but is there a way to see what packages are available, but not installed? try apt-

Re: Is there a way to determine

2004-06-25 Thread Santiago de Ledesma
try apt-cache search On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 15:13, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > Sorry for the newbie question. I'm new to the Debian package management > system. Is there a way to determine what packages are available from > the repositories I have in sources.list? I use dpkg

Is there a way to determine

2004-06-25 Thread Douglas Phillipson
Sorry for the newbie question. I'm new to the Debian package management system. Is there a way to determine what packages are available from the repositories I have in sources.list? I use dpkg --list to see what's installed, but is there a way to see what packages are available