On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:11:50AM +0000, Jeff Forsyth wrote: > I would like to know if there is a centeral list of all packages with their descriptions available off-line. For example, a PDF or simply a book that lists all the packages and their descriptions. After you have done 'apt-get update' or 'dselect update" look at /var/lib/dpkg/available. -- Jerome