Re: newbie network config

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:46, Jacob S. wrote:
...
>  If you want something to hold your hand a little
> more than apt-get, try aptitude (or so I'm told... I learned apt-get and
> never felt like changing. Apt-get by itself is years beyond what rpm
> was, when I played around with it.) There's also dselect, but it's
> usually only referred to in nightmares... :-)

I used to use dselect quite a lot to search for packages - that was until I 
found aptitude.  Now I would live without it - the advantage over the command 
line tools is that you can browse for things.  
-- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk