On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:13:58PM -0400, Kevin Puetz wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Oh no, don't use dselect...it's evil. If you were using apt then it > > would have held back gcc/g++ and friends for lack of the new binutils > > (which is easily obtained from experimental if you want it to work). > > Does apt have a way to list packages and details? If so I haven't found it > yet... dpkg -l works, but I can only use -I on a package after I've > downloaded > it... somehow dselect has all this info though. I mostly use apt-get, but in > this case used dselect (under the apparently mistaken assumption that they > are > the same subsystem).
Yep. Apt-cache show <packagename>. apt-cache showpkg displays some other useful information also. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
