Re: Package Info

2000-04-24 Thread kmself
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > You can read the packages status file for information from > > /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from > > your various apt source

Re: Package Info

2000-04-23 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You can read the packages status file for information from > /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from > your various apt sources, whether installed or not, and is somewhat more > flexible than lookin

Re: Package Info

2000-04-23 Thread kmself
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:27:40PM -0500, Irish, Jon D wrote: > Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian > packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too > sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I > know

Re: Package Info

2000-04-22 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/21/2000, 1:27:40 PM, "Irish, Jon D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian > packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too > sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague,

Re: Package Info

2000-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Irish, Jon D wrote: > Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian > packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too > sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I > know ;-). The DSELECT program is pretty much ov