Re: Apt-get suggestion, was (Re: kernel depends?)
At Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:05:06 -0500,
Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> wrote:
> > I have been wishing for an apt-get functionality for a while now but...
> >
> > Is it altogether unreasonable that
> > apt-get install filename
> > instead of
> > apt-get install package
> > should work? I would really enjoy having apt lookup the most appropriate
> > package for any needed file or binary that I wish to install. If
> > multiple packages offered the same utility or file then I would probably
> > need to decide but not necessarily, a default selection would be ok also.
> >
> > For instance, if I wanted to compile something that requires some obscure
> > library I would have to figure out what package that it is in then
> > install that package. As opposed to just telling apt to install that
> > library, this seems like unwanted work to me, but I suppose
> > there might be some con to this, however I can't think of any.
>
> auto-apt (in woody) will do this, more or less.
FYI, it works on potato :)
Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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