Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is a good point. May be it would be a good idea to implement some > kind of way to > have a visual field of packages available, with short explanation and > link to wider > explanation (or link-option-command), accesible from within the > system, without > needing to surf the debian site. Especially when you are new to UNIX, > or the packages > are new, the task of deciding what you want and/or need may be too > much.
You might like to look at the Storm Linux Package Manager - it is a front-end to apt and allows one to browse and search installed *and available* packages and see the descriptions etc.. The nice thing I think is that once you tell it to process your selections it closes and brings up an xterm where it runs apt-get. Once the packages have been installed and configured, it asks if you want the downloaded packages deleted, then returns you to the GUI. Very nice. If you want to have a look, get it from: ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm/dists/rain/main/binary-i386/sl-stormpkg_1.0-1_i386.deb Better still, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list and you should be able to request it using apt-get: deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm rain main contrib If you are using Potato, replace 'rain' with 'potato' I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work on a standard Debian distro. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000