On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Tom Bryan wrote: > So far, I just search for a package name in the dselect package list, select > to add it, decide whether or not to install the packages it recommends, and > install.
Dselect is quite fine if you like its interface. Its handling of Suggests and Recommends tends to be much more intelligent than apt-get. The version of Synaptic in Sid blows away both imo, and the version in Ubuntu Hoary [and experimental] adds package authentication, among other features. > > Aptitude is much better, but both are clunky and hard to understand (in > > my opinion). > > Thanks. I'll take a look. The nicest thing regarding aptitude is its logging facility. > Some digging around online turned up kdepim-kio-plugins. Installing that > solved the problem. I don't think that I had this package when kmail was > working earlier, so perhaps the package just got split out as part of KDE > 3.3. After installing that package, I am now able to access an IMAP over SLL > again. Both dselect and apt-cache(8) show reveal that kdepim-kio-plugins is a Recommends. It's always a good idea to take a look at the Suggests and Recommends lines via apt-cache show. :) apt-get in Sarge and in Sid, dselect, Synaptic, and aptitude all reveal the Suggests and Recommends information. Cheers! -- Daniel T. Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc
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