Since Andrew Vaughan already answered your first question, I'll just get this one:
The Wanderer wrote: > (As long as I'm here anyway, a minor question on completely another > topic: since I'm told that apt-get and apt-cache are deprecated, what is > the intended successor - in aptitude or similar - to 'apt-cache policy'? > The aptitude man page tells me nothing useful. I find 'apt-cache policy' > more routinely useful than just about any other apt command, and would > be very disturbed to lose its functionality.) As far as I know, apt-get / apt-cache are not deprecated, they just have fewer features than aptitude / synaptic / etc. and probably won't have many new features added. For instance, apt-get doesn't keep track of which packages were installed automatically for dependency reasons, doesn't install Recommends, etc. Apt-get is sort of the "reference implementation" of APT. On the other hand, aptitude doesn't have the functionality of (for instance) "apt-get source" or "apt-get build-dep". I think you can continue using "apt-cache policy" without any worry that it will go away soon. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
