On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is > great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a > better way?
I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually just look it up on the Debian packages site. I should bookmark the page, I use it so much. Especially when you don't know what you're looking for (a free replacement for XV, for instance. I settled on qiv, but if anyone's got a better choice, I'd love to hear it!). > From time to time I drop in to dselect to be able to search and find > packages, but if I try to select and install from dselect the selections are > not on par to additions made via apt-get. Is there a way to sync the two, or > am I just doing things the hard way? To be honest, after I started getting the hang of apt-get, I never even thought about dselect again. It just takes too long to sort through the stuff. I am far from an expert at this, but this is what I've found works for me. HTH. Adam