On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote: > | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop. > > | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most > | concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like KDE3, > | OpenOffice 1.0 & Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty good > | installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use their > | install programs. So, I guess I'm mostly concerned about KDE3. > > Once you have your system installed you can check the available > versions of a package using the 'apt-cache' command. Eg : > > $ apt-cache show mozilla-browser > mozilla-browser: > Installed: 2:0.9.9-6 > Candidate: 2:0.9.9-6 > Version Table: > 2:1+rc2-1 0 > 95 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages > *** 2:0.9.9-6 0 > 990 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >
Hmmm. That's not what happens when I type $ apt-cache show mozilla-browser I get something that looks like an excerpt from a /var/lib/apt/lists binary Packages file. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
