On Tuesday 22 June 2010 08:34:57 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2010 12:27:47 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying > > recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of > > "apt-cache show"? > > If you can handle the *curses interface of aptitude do: > 1. Execute 'aptitude'. > 2. Press Ctrl+T. > 3. Use left/right to navigate to "Views". > 4. Use up/down to navigate to "Audit Recommendations". > > This shows anything recommended but not installed. By using up/down to > highlight a particular recommendation, you can see why it is recommended in > the bottom pane. > > Aptitude does this (mostly) with a package limit, and we can easily see > what it is. Press 'l'. This allows you to edit the package limit, but it > shows the current one so we can note it. "!~v!~i~RBrecommends:~i" > > With this magic string, we can get much of this data from the command line. > Simply issuing (aptitude search '!~v!~i~RBrecommends:~i') from the shell > will basically give us the data in the top frame. > > For any particular package in that list (e.g. policykit-gnome), you can > also determine why it would be recommended from the command line. Simply > issuing (aptitude why '~i' 'policykit-gnome') will give the "most > installed, strongest, tightest, shortest" reason to install that package, > which should be a recommendation. Try (aptitude -v why '~i' > 'policykit-gnome') for other interesting results.
Thanks for the info. I am trying to migrate from dselect to aptitude. To do a search in aptitude I use the '/' option. In dselect the search feature is the same '/', once you enter your search if you keep pressing the '/' key you cycle through all the matches to the search string. In aptitude the '/' key brings up the search dialog again and I have to press three keys to continues the search, '/' to open search dialog, 'tab' key to select the 'OK' or ''Cancel' button, then the 'enter' key to find , repeat. I am wondering if I am missing a feature of aptitude, or if I just need to learn the new way. ? -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006221446.21678.gomadtr...@gci.net
