Re: newbie question about the apt-get install??

[Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>]

ºØÀí wrote:
> 
> I'm often find some maillist descript installing debian package in this way:
> apt-get install jade
> apt-get install docbook
> apt-get install docbook-stylesheets
> ..
> but in debian mirror the full package files isn't similar,such as
> 
> apt-get install docbook-stylesheets-------docbook-xsl-stylesheets_1.40-1_all.deb
> The apt-get install command can install docbook-xsl-stylesheets package and other useful .deb packages,but how can i know the argument after apt-get install command?
> Guess the argument? NO,no,no, My god!

The package name is everything up to the first underscore (_). 
Everything after that up to the next _ is a version number, and
everything after that up to the . is a platform name.

Tom