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Re: fake packages?



On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>     Hey guys. How does this work?
>
> lupus:~# apt-get install latex
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Note, selecting tetex-bin instead of latex
>
>     I don't see a package called latex in the cache, but apt-get knew to grab
> tetex-bin. Where does it get that information?

latex is a virtual package

checkout "aptitude", then look in the "Virtual Packages" tree


- Bruce



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