Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [teach to fish mode] > > Yes, by all means! > > > apt-cache show newbiedoc > > I tried this on an uninstalled package (mysql), and nothing was > returned. But shouldn't this command have exposed information > contained in the cache, even for uninstalled packages?
I am running testing/unstable. dpkg -l newbiedoc newbiedoc 0.6.0-1 Yes, if they are in the package cache. I get the packages lists of all the dists (stable,testing,unstable) with dselect update. So when I do apt-cache I get a listing because I have the discriptions of 'all' of the debian packages. > > Wayne, don't apologize. Much appreciated. > > Just to show you I'm in a "learning mode", when I could not install > doc-linux-nonfree-text, I ran apt-cache search and found out that it > is properly "doc-linux-text". That I downloaded. Sure enough, it pops > up in /usr/share/doc/doc-linux-text ;-) Sorry about that. Thats (doc-linux-nonfree-text) what doc-linux-text is called in testing/unstable, which is what I am running. My bad! Wayne Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) -- Home is where the computer is plugged in. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
