[TriLUG] still new to apt-get, must be missing something...

[Cristobal Palmer]

Also:

disable <F10> as a menu key for x-term (or just run aptitude outside X) and 
you can access aptitudes' menu, which is handy. It includes minesweeper (God 
knows why).

I especially like that I can hit "/" to search for a string and it matches 
as I type. If I want to find the next instance, I just type "\".

Lastly, don't be too surprised if you get errors complaining about your 
/etc/apt/sources.list file. I get these regularly, but perhaps that has more 
to do with the fact that I'm running Sid than with any flaw in aptitude.

-CMP

On 6/20/05, Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> writes:
> > I've read the man page and messed around with apt-get but there is
> > still one thing I can't seem to do and that is list all the packages
> > that COULD be installed by apt-get if I wanted to (the equiv of 'yum
> > list'). Google doesn't seem to be much help either. Any ideas?
> 
> `apt-cache pkgnames` will do it, but 'tis an awfully long list.
> 
> I would suggest installing aptitude, which is a nice full-screen
> front-end for spelunking around the list of packages that also has a
> command-line interface that is pretty much the same as apt-get, so you
> can just do `aptitude install foo` if you want.
> 
> It also has other nice features---you can configure it to keep track
> of packages that were only installed to satisfy the dependencies of
> another package, and when the last package depending on a package so
> marked, it will uninstall the marked package as well.
> 
> Mike
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