It seems very clear to me that the Menu package is what you are looking for.
it's strange that nobody has said anything about it since you posted your
question;
The README file of /usr/doc/menu answers most of your askings.
First, you must have a debian system, this shouldn't be a
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
by.
Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application
A 07:14 04/05/99 -0400, vous avez écrit :
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
by.
Is there a simple way for that
dpkg -l | less
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Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
by.
Is there a simple way for that user to find every available
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:14:53AM -0400, Tommy Malloy wrote:
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
by.
Good
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote:
I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none
of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage
available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one
feel very silly, and can be quite
Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly
what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd
think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a
pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting with not too much
hassle.
On Tue, 4 May
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly
| what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd
| think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a
| pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting
A person has to start somewhere. If your novice user knows enough
to get by, they already have a tremendous advance over the absolute green
horn. apropos only scans man pages, but that is a good place to begin. Of
course, if the person doesn't know what they are looking for, they won't
What about something that could search /var/lib/dpkg/available
intelligently? ie: You can set regexes on each field (some fields would
be better served by checkboxes or listboxes) and all packages matching
those criteria (make sure that the ones with listboxes let you do the
equivalent of OR
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