Hi, This should heve been sent to debian-user...
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:14:49PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Hello, > Could you guys answer this question: Yes. > 1. Where can I get a list of every single package that is in amd64 > architecture? (A list of every program that can be installed by > category if possible main contrib non-free, source for main contrib > non-free). I initially though that information is in Contents-amd64.gz > but I'm not sure what that file is for. Is packages.gz the file I'm > looking for? If yes is there one for source or every binary package > has a corresponding source package always? > 2. Is the and ftp somewhere that hold the source of every .deb file? > Instead of me getting the .deb can I go into some ftp server and get > the content of what is in .deb? Please read basic Debian document and lean how Debian works. I hope my debian-reference package or it web versio should help. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html Especially: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#debianpackagemanagementinternals If you want more official documents: see links from http://www.debian.org/doc/ (The Debian Reference there is old. I will update it once server is updated to lenny after its release.) Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
