Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-23 Thread rudu
Le 23/06/2010 00:46, Greg Madden a écrit : Thanks for the info. I am trying to migrate from dselect to aptitude. To do a search in aptitude I use the '/' option. In dselect the search feature is the same '/', once you enter your search if you keep pressing the '/' key you cycle through all th

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 08:34:57 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2010 12:27:47 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying > > recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of > > "apt-cache show"? > > If you ca

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 21 June 2010 12:27:47 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying > recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of > "apt-cache show"? If you can handle the *curses interface of aptitude do: 1. Execute 'aptitude'. 2. P

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
On 21/06/10 14:20, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying >> recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of >> "apt-cache show"? > > apt-cache depends > > also shows t

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 iun 10, 13:27:47, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying > recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of > "apt-cache show"? apt-cache depends also shows the recommended packages. > Basically, I'd just like t

Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of "apt-cache show"? Basically, I'd just like to get a list of recommended packages from a list of installed or prospective packages without having to use the aptit