On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:12:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Probably a mental typo:
$ apt-cache policy mozilla-browser
^^^^^^
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