Re: potential new Debian user
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote:
> | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop.
>
> | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most
> | concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3,
> | OpenOffice 1.0 & Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty good
> | installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use their
> | install programs. So, I guess I'm mostly concerned about KDE3.
>
> Once you have your system installed you can check the available
> versions of a package using the 'apt-cache' command. Eg :
>
> $ apt-cache show mozilla-browser
> mozilla-browser:
> Installed: 2:0.9.9-6
> Candidate: 2:0.9.9-6
> Version Table:
> 2:1+rc2-1 0
> 95 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
> *** 2:0.9.9-6 0
> 990 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
Hmmm. That's not what happens when I type
$ apt-cache show mozilla-browser
I get something that looks like an excerpt from a /var/lib/apt/lists
binary Packages file.
--
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: ron.l.johnson@cox.net |
| Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 |
| |
| "I have created a government of whirled peas..." |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
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