Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > $ apt-get install apt-cache > $ man apt-cache > $ apt-cache search foo The first step should yield an error messages -- it isn't necessary, because apt-cache is part of the apt package (dpkg -S apt-cache). In addition, one could mention `apt-cache show

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread kmself
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,

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-18 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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? I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually j