will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Kpackage or dselect would have done the same thing.  I'm partial to
> dselect because it has vi style searches.  Type "/" and it asks you

I highly recommend aptitude for console frontend to apt.  Synaptic
is a nice GUI as well.

> what you want to look for.  Dselect also does dependency and conflict
> resolution where you can see it and do something about it.  Dselect is
> also nice enough to tell you how many packages and bytes your
> selection will pull, so you can abort if you don't have enough space.
> Kpackage has a nicer face, and may have other goodies, but I'm too
> lazy to learn now.  Being able to install packages by ssh is great.

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Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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