Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?
Shaleh wrote:
>
> I have a tk app which reads the currently installed packages list and
> lists them alphabetically. It also shows the files that each package
> contains. It is very handy. I have the tk source (obviously) I lack
> the accompanying C source for its lib. I have contacted the author and
> hope he will respond. The app is called dpkgview and if ANYONE has its
> source please say so, loudly. I would be glad to package it for Debian
> or someone else can.
>
I've seen one using QT and KDE. It was a front-end for debs and rpms. At
the time I've try it, it failed to install anything. But it was able to
display in a 'explorer' like style the packages installed. Here is it's
lsm:
Begin
Title: kpackage
Version: 0.7
Description: Gaphical package manager for RPM and DEB packages
Keywords: package rpm debian X XFree KDE Qt
Author: Damyan Pepper, Toivo Pedaste + others
Maintained-by: Toivo Pedaste (toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au)
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/pub/k
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/admin
Home-Page: http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage
Original-site:
Platform: Linux with Qt-1.31 GUI library and KDE Beta-1
Copying-policy: GPL
I didn't check the state of it recently, but it looked promising.
Ionutz
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