help for aptitude

abhijeetnayak · 06-11-2006, 10:39 PM

Hi,

I am using ubuntu 6.06 . I gave the below two commands

1> sudo aptitude download package_name
or
2> sudo -d package_name

I thing the first one saves it in current dir. but where does the second one.

My second question is how to know which software version is available to download when I use the command apt-get or aptitude.

thanks.
( by fault I have posted this twice)

aysiu · 06-11-2006, 11:03 PM

Well, you can use aptitude in a different way if you want to browse around. Just type

Code:

aptitude

To see where packages went, try

Code:

sudo updatedb
locate package_name

Have you considered using a graphical frontend for apt-get like Synaptic?
You can also search http://packages.ubuntu.com to see version numbers.