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more searching for debs



also check out some of the new apt interfaces..
some are avaliable in potato, others are currently in unstable
console-apt (capt,apt-find)
aptitude
gnome-apt
corel-apt (with corel linux.. kde, supports RPM also)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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 "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Nate Carlson wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, kyle matteson wrote:
> 
> > but yes, i'll agree, i've used both redhat and debian for a while, and debian kicks
> > redhat's packaging system all over the place. i just wish apt had a sort of search
> > function, so you wouldn't have to know the exact name and or syntax of the package
> > and it would give you a list of possible options when say you typed "apt-get install
> > lib*" it would give you all of the options starting w/ those letters (am i making any
> > sense?)  but hey, i'm always one to complain :). and yes, i know deslect is a better
> > option if you're not sure exactly what you're looking for, just think that the
> > command line use of apt rocks, and it couldn't hurt from a little more
> > functionablity.
> > 
> > kyle
> 
> apt-cache dump | grep lib
> 
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