Yesudeep wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Yesudeep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I use Ubuntu and depend on Synaptic to install/uninstall packages and also >>> to search for packages. I want to gradually learn to do the same things >>> from >>> the command line. Is there any way I can sort of ask synaptic to log all >>> system commands (apt-get or whatever) that it executes with the options? >>> >>> -- >>> Puneet >>> http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ >>> Latest Post: javac -g >>> -- >>> http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >>> >>> >> Check these out: >> >> # cat /var/log/apt/term.log >> # zcat /var/log/apt/term.log.1.gz >> ... >> >> > > > > >> -- >> Cheers, >> Yesudeep Mangalapilly | येसà¥à¤¦à¥€à¤ª >> मंगलािपलà¥à¤²à¥€ >> GnuPG: 0x79E237CB | IRC: jburd >> >> Do NOT send me chain forwards. I will ignore you. >> >> Do NOT send me Microsoft Word documents. I will bite. >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html >> >> I use free and open source software. >> http://www.gnu.org/ >> > > > Apparently, it's very much possible to accidentally click the Send button. > > Anyway continuing my reply above. The commands I showed > will show you a log of what's installed. If you're looking to learn about > commands, you're better off reading man pages or info documents. > > Type: `man apt-get` sans quotes for a start. > > While it is no problem to use apt-get install package, apt-get -f install, apt-get update/upgrade etc., how does one get an ncurses (DOS) type interface in command line to scroll different packages that match the query key words so that the package and its description can be read, just as it is done in GUI.
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