On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:37:00AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > > how do i install ncurses? > > atp-get install <package that has ncurses in it> > > How to discover the name of <package that has ncurses in it> is the > question for which I currently have no good answer. Scrolling through > 6900 packages in dselect takes too much time and is too error prone (at > least, when *I* do it). So far the best I've found is: > > grep Package:.*ncurses /var/lib/dpkg/available | less > > which at least gives me a list of only packages whose names contain > "ncurses". > > There's probably a much nicer way to do this, and if so I'd appreciate a > documentation pointer.
i've approached a handful of just that type of method in my intro at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbiedoc/files/apt-get-intro.html section 12, 'which package contains...' -- does a brain cell think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
