Re: KPackage and apt-get basics

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Brenden (<brenden@rcsis.com>) wrote:

> I'm trying out KPackage and apt-get for the first time.
> 
> One thing I'm missing is a way to get a list of installed packages. 
> Is this available someplace from either tool?

dpkg --get-selections
dpkg -L
aptitude (if it is installed)

> The second thing is how do I get dependencies to install?  I tried
> installing package apache but it told me apache-common was needed and 
> missing.  

If you use apt-get, it should be able to get the necessary packages
automatically. Try

apt-get install apache
apt-cache show apache-common
apt-cache policy apache-common

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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