SlowCoder |
05-20-2007 07:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by jaymoney
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Your example didn't turn up exactly what I want, as I don't know regular expressions. However, it showed me "apt-cache pkgnames", which will give me a list of packages. But this method does not show me if they are installed, or from what repo they came.
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Originally Posted by jaymoney
I think it would be overkill to try to view 20,000+ programs in the shell.
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I can easily grep for what I am looking for.
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Originally Posted by jaymoney
Any reason you don't want to use Synaptic?
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I find the CLI is faster in this case. I can quicker enter "apt-get ..." than go through the Synaptic menus.
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