Re: (solved on my own) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages
On Tue, 08 May 2007 18:00:08 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:36, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:02:41AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
>> > aptitude search \!~i~sdoc only lists 4 packages.
>> >
>> > surely main of sarge has far more than that.
>> >
> I usually use Synaptic if I'm looking for a specific package. The only
> slight problem, if it's displaying all available packages, (and there
> are currently 19,971 showing on Synaptic for Lenny) is that using the
> mouse on the scrollbar, it just scrolls by too fast, and the up, and
> down arrows on the scrollbar, scroll too slow when your trying to find a
> package.
>
> it would be a nice feature for Synaptic's scrollbar to have both slow,
> and fast, up, and down arrows.
>
> Perhaps I should put this to Synaptic's maintainer. Anyone know who that
> is?
>
> Nigel.
>
For a more controlled paging use page up and page down buttons
Arnfinn
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