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Re: dselect and apt-get



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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, paul@netwise.net.au (paul@netwise.net.au) wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While
> this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name,
> or is there a better way? From time to time I drop in to dselect to be
> able to search and find packages, but if I try to select and install
> from dselect the selections are not on par to additions made via
> apt-get. Is there a way to sync the two, or am I just doing things the
> hard way?

    $ apt-get install apt-cache
    $ man apt-cache
    $ apt-cache search foo

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