Ubuntu 4.10

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

What you probably want is the "apt-cache search" command. If that's not
what you want, you probably want "dpkg -l" then.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:13:53 -0800, R. McFarlane wrote:

> At 06:07 AM 11/11/2004, Brian McKee, had this to say :
> 
>>>         I had thought of installing Ubuntu but given that it can not use 
>>> existing package management files , that kind of puts me off. I don't 
>>> mind "rolling my own" (a.k.a. compiling from source) but to do it for 
>>> everything I want gets to be a lot of work. I much prefer yum!
>>
>>Can you explain your concern better to me?  Ubuntu has 'apt' which is 
>>often called the best of the package management systems.  Debian people 
>>sure think so anyway :-)   I would think it at least the equal of yum.
>>  And while I haven't looked I thought the ppc packages available were 
>> pretty extensive... What don't I know?
> 
>          If apt is able to do a "list" function I sure would like to know. 
> Yum lets me "search" the repositories and I can do this all from console, 
> no GUI needed.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
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