On 21-Sep-2000 Ray Percival wrote: > Does anyone know of a place with good apt-get info? That and a couple of > questions. How does one find out what packages are out there? I'm looking for > helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like general info. Also > is X 4.x apt-getable and if not how do you do a .deb that is not. Thanks for > your help. > Ray > X 4 is not officially packaged yet. Doing so involves a significant change to Debian. It will appear though. As for a apt-get tutorial, one is attached to this message. And as always, look in /usr/share/doc/<package>. To find out what is available, the "best" way is to use either dselect or console-apt. Both of these give a console, curses based GUI.
Attachment:
apt.howto
Description: Binary data