Ludovic Brenta <[email protected]> writes: > The other tool is aptitude. Since Debian 4.0 "Etch", aptitude is > the official, recommended tool for both installation and upgrades; it > supersedes dselect. > > If you navigate to gnat-4.3 and hit ENTER, you will see this: > > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch01s01s01.html > > Towards the bottom of the screen, a line says: > > --- Packages which depend on gnat-4.3 > > And you can expand it (with ENTER) to:
Ok, now it is showing packages that are not installed. I don't see what I did differently this time than last time :(. Apparently ncurses interfaces just don't like me (or vice-versa :). > On each package in each of these categories, you can type '+' to install > it, '-' to remove it, ENTER to display its detailed information, etc. Ok. > This is how I installed all Ada packages; the only problem is that I > sometimes had to do multiple cycles of ENTER, scroll down, '+' to get > all packages. And I missed a few -dbg or -doc packages that are *not* > currently linked to gnat-4.3 in any way. Right. It's not automatically a recursive depends list. > PS. I hear aptitide now has a GTK+ interface in addition to the ncurses > interface. I've never used it. That would be aptitude-gtk, whose description says: This package contains an EXPERIMENTAL version of aptitude that includes a GTK+-based graphical interface. It is INCOMPLETE and may not work properly. If you do not need a GUI or prefer a more stable interface, you can instead use the version of aptitude found in the package "aptitude". synaptic serves the same purpose, and appears to be more mature. >> And we still need a FAQ to point out this way of using synaptic; it's >> not obvious, both because it doesn't involve searching for "ada", and it >> involves the mysterious "dependencies" search option. > > How about an appendix in the Debian Policy for Ada? That makes sense. Although it would be best of a web search for "Debian Ada FAQ" found it. Hmm. Currently, the first hit for that phrase, on ask.com and Google, is the Debian Policy for Ada. So I guess that criterion is satisfied :). The third hit on Google is also Debian Policy for Ada, but on the out-dated adaworld.com. That site will never die! -- -- Stephe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
