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