[ale] Package Management System

[dsj at sylvester.dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 08:11:50PM -0500 Debrihmi <debrihmi at chaos706.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:55:52 -0500, ChangingLINKS.com wrote
> > > My biggest gripe with Debian package management is the lack of a decent
> > > graphical package selection program.  If you don't know the name of the
> > > package you want to install it's a real pain to find.
> > 
> > Exactly. 
> > 
> > Drew

> Ditto..

> Debrihmi

apt-cache is your friend here.  Also aptitude is a pretty good
curses front end.  But apt-cache handles regexes pretty well,
iirc.  At least I never have had too much trouble finding what I
was looking for.  (Except if it only existed in some obscure deb
repository that wasn't in my sources.list.)

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