Re: apt list

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Well, plethora of Steves, I'll save that last message so that I don't have 
to redo your search.

It wasn't until your apt question reminded me of apt-iselect that I 
remember how much I like it.

eks

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Stephen D. Reindl wrote:

> I'll try these as soon as I get done destroying my install, thanks.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 20:12, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> > As I understand, the information is stored in the apt cache. You can use:
> > 
> > apt-shell 
> >   where you get an ftp-like shell and you can do "ls" and so forth 
> >   (including help)
> > 
> > apt-iselect
> >   download a script from 
> >   http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/apt-iselect.html
> >   that does pretty much the same thing, but also gives you information
> > 
> > apteryx
> >   Haven't tried this, may not work under RH.
> >   http://www.internetlab.org/apteryx/
> > 
> > There are others, I expect.
> > 
> > Erich
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Stephen D. Reindl wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a list of the rpms in an apt repository that a person could
> > > look through when they aren't positive what a package is called?
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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