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Re: ITP: links



On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:08:18PM -0000, Pawel Wiecek wrote:

> On Dec 15, 12:32pm, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >   Might be a good idea, but you should be aware of the
> > existence of apt-cache(8)  From the manpage:
> 
> Ahh, all these new apt related commands are surely nice but then:
>  1. hell, my knowledge of them is near zero ;^)
>  2. apt-cache needs all the Package files. Which I don't have for woody. And
>     it's unlikely I'll have before I regain normal Inet access, which will be
>     around October :^(

If you can't download the Packages files on a regular basis, try:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=links&searchon=names&version=all&release=all

Or run dpkg/apt-cache on one of the Debian machines.

-- 
 - mdz



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