Re: apt-get

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:35:47PM +0000, The Fungi wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:40AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> [...]
> > aptitude [...] does everything apt-get does...
> [...]
> 
> Well, analogies to 'apt-get source' and 'apt-get build-dep' were
> still missing the last time I tried, but these days I have little

apt-cache showsrc

> trouble remembering to type apt-get instead of aptitude when I need
> those. Also, its default search doesn't seem to match quite so
> extensively (loosely?) as 'apt-cache search' from what I've seen,
> but that's likely just a case of me having been too lazy to RTFM and
> figure out that I need to add an option flag when running it.

Exactly