On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:10:03AM -0500, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> Now that I live in partially in the Debian world, is there anything
> like RPMFind.net for .debs? Or is everything that is *.deb on the
> ftp.debian.org site (or it's mirrors)?
Well, now that Andy gave you some good links to add to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, I'm going to give you a hint on how to
search your package list for items.
As Andy said earlier, Debian distributes all available .deb packages
from it's central archive systems. Some people do distribute .deb's
outside this, but you'll usually find them in the "contrib" section
anyway. Onward...
To search for a given word within your package list:
apt-cache search <word>
** HINT ** Use this in combination w/pipes to grep, sort, and a
pager
To show the details about the package:
apt-cache show <packagename>
To show the dependencies for the package:
apt-cache depends <packagename>
To learn more about these cool commands...
SEE ALSO
apt-cache(1), apt-get(1), apt.conf(5), sources.list(5), dpkg(8),
dselect(8), dpkg-deb(1), deb(5), deb-control(5)
DOC PACKAGES TO INSTALL (look under /usr/share/doc/<packagename>)
doc-debian, debian-guide
That should get you started. ;-)
--
Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>
http://wookimus.net/chewie
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