On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> Other responses in this thread give good suggestions for searching
> for packages. But, suppose your question is something like: What
> package contains file or application xyz? In effect, you are
> saying: I need file/app xyz? What
Hey Guys, thanks for all the comments. I think I may have picked up a few
tricks in your comments. However, my issue was not one of searching, it was
one of not having the package downloaded and available to
install(linux-image-
2.6.5-1-686). I was using sid only and unknown to me the kernel had
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Allen wrote:
> >Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache
> >installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find
> >$package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but
> >insta
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 do
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:49:50PM -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
--- Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
snip
Looks like you still want a mechanism for keeping specific versions of
specific packages in cache.
What I do is copy the .debs elsewhere, su
Allen wrote:
Why do you care what is in the cache file? If you have apt-cache
installed, then you use `apt-cache search $package` to find
$package_regex, and if you use aptitude, you can do this to download but
install it: `aptitide -d install $package_name` (latter need to be as
root).
Not to
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