On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Not totally sure what your point is. I have many times did apt-get, > > aptitude and wajig updates, upgrades, dist-upgrades, installs, removes > > and purges. I'm certainly no Debian linux expert, if anyone is. I don't > > know what "regex" is > > unless it means regular expresson. apt-cache search didn't find it. You > > may be > > telling me that I can download and install a package with "aptitude -d > > install > > $package name". but I don't know what that Package Name is unless I see > > it in > > a cache file or somewheres. I'm willing to be enlightened as after 2 yrs > > with > > Debian linux I'm just beginning to know that I don't know anything about > > it. So go ahead fire away and enlighten me. I usually learn something > > everytime > > 'aptitude search <package>' works for me. I have never really needed to > use apt-cache or apt-file to search for applications. I've always used > 'aptitude search foo'. For example 'aptitude search webmin' will bring up > all the webmin packages available to you to and indicate their status > <ie> installed (A)uto, (C)onfigured etc. > > Then if you wish more information on a specific package, 'aptitude show > package.foo' will give you the dependencies and what the package > does/is. > > HTH
I like to use grep to narrow down particular packages, especially things such as modules. For example, if I need MySQL support for PHP4, I'll use the following to find all packages related to PHP and MySQL: 'aptitude search php4 | grep mysql' the result is: v php4-cgi-mysql - i php4-mysql - MySQL module for php4 instead of a long list of PHP packages and then trying to spotting the one related to MySQL. Interprocess piping/filtering is the best! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
