[PlanetCCRMA] problem with synaptic

David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
Thu May 27 13:52:00 2004


Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>>My question is really: is there some other way to get the package list 
>>to choose packages to install?
>>
>>apt-get install XXX is good enough for me, but how do I determine which 
>>XXX:s there are to choose from?
>>    
>>
>apt-cache can be used for that. For example:
>  apt-cache search \.\* 
>will list all available packages...
>-- Fernando
>  
>
You can also try apt-shell which gives you interactive shell

David