Re: Some package questions
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 05:58, Joakim Hove wrote:
> Hello Debian Masters,
>
> I have just switched RedHat -> Debian, and so far I must say I am *very
> pleased* with the conversion, mostly due to the packaging, I never
> really got allong with RPM. However I still do have some (small ?)
> questions about packages:
We all did, when first coming over from The Dark Side...
[snip]
> 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version
> numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs
> exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that
> to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely
> unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route
> from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions?
Two big friends of yours:
# apt-cache search <regex-pattern>
# apt-cache show <package-name>
"apt-cache show" will show you info like Dependencies, Conflicts, and
Suggests.
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