Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>
> Harry> Yikes.. I guess the name is kind of a giveaway but the definition in
> Harry> the man page doesn't come across as giving that kind of information:
>
> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
> apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
> informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
> just use the regexp search in emacs or less).
My one go around with dselect during my first installation attempt
caused me to want to shoot myself after a few minutes. But once you
start getting used to the keybindings it starts to work.
What does it mean to use dselect with apt as backend?
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