package list screen at installation

[Liudmila Yafremava]

Hi!

When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list of
packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already
installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not install
for one reason or another, is it possible to display that list of packages
in the same form?

Thanks,
Luda


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Re: package list screen at installation

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:51:09AM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote:
 When we instal debian, we have an option to go through the entire list
 of packages and install them using dpkg. Now, if my system is already
 installed, but I do not want to search for all packages I did not
 install for one reason or another, is it possible to display that list
 of packages in the same form?

Run dselect.

Cheers,

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Re: package list screen at installation

[sean finney]

hiya,

dselect is the program you're probably thinking of.  as a piece of 
advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real
easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds
of wacky situations with your system.  if you're looking for packages
that do specific things, i'd recommend apt-cache search.  the format
is pretty straight forward.  like

bash$ apt-cache search nintendo emulator

note that spaces between search terms means OR, so use double quotes
if you don't want that, and be prepared to pipe to less.  after you
find the packages you're interested in,

bash$ apt-cache show packagename

will give you all the details you'd have seen in dselect

hth,
sean



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Re: package list screen at installation

[martin f krafft]

also sprach sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.18.1616 +0100]:
 dselect is the program you're probably thinking of.  as a piece of 
 advice, do any package browsing as a normal user, because it's real
 easy to hit a key you didn't mean to, and it can lead to all kinds
 of wacky situations with your system.

or ditch dselect and use aptitude, which has Undo and other fine
features.

 note that spaces between search terms means OR,

i don't think so. from the manpage:

Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiple
search patterns that are and'd together.

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Re: package list screen at installation

[sean finney]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:06:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
  note that spaces between search terms means OR,
 
 i don't think so. from the manpage:
 
 Seperate arguments can be used to specified multiple
 search patterns that are and'd together.

yeah, my bad.  what i meant to say was that using multiple terms would
produce more results than the terms combined as a single string, as in

apt-cache search encryption library
vs.
apt-cache search encryption library

where the former would produce more results, i just got my binary operators
mixed up :)

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