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Re: Woody Installation



Stephen Depooter wrote:

Hi
> apt-cache search <enter keywords here>
Know this already, does indeed often come in handy, but often lists too
many unrelated packages.

> apt-cache show <package name>
Never tried this.
> This will often provide a reasonable selection of packages to choose
> from although sometimes there is a lot of extra packages to sort
> through.
> Another place is to look is http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages where
> there is a categorized listing and a searching capability.
This sound good and helpful. Will browse there.

Thanks a lot.

Axel Schlicht



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