Any idea whats the apt-get equavilent of ..

1) yum info (to see whats the latest package version from sources.)
2) rpm -qa (to list all the debian packages installed on the local system)

thanx

1) apt-cache showsrc <package>
2) dpkg -l * (i reccomend something like aptitude (apt-get install aptitude) tho)

Whats aptitude for? need it for dpkg?

Can I say that apt-get is equivalent of yum and dpkg is equivalent of rpm?

heya,

Here is some information about aptitude. If you ask me you should install synaptic. If you want to install aptitue or synaptic just open your console and type apt-get install aptitue. This command will install aptitude and their dependencies. In case you want to know information about some packet just type in your console apt-cashe show aptitude.





Package: aptitude
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 3136
Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.2.11.1-4
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1), libsigc++0, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)
Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.2.11.1-4_i386.deb
Size: 910496
MD5sum: 0533970afd208e538a25f06df9105b24
Description: curses-based apt frontend
aptitude is a curses-based apt frontend with a number of useful extended
features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible
manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve
and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and extreme flexibility
and customization.
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aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
and housebroken.

Best regards,

Danail Stanev