[ale] apt question

[David S. Jackson]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:52:48PM -0500 Michael D. Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:33 pm, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> > apt-get update
> > aptitude
> 
> Hmm.  Installing apt did not install aptitude on my RH system.  Is it a 
> separate package?

apt-get install aptitude

To find out about a package, go apt-cache show packagename

> Speaking of separate packages, synaptic is the standard gui for apt that 
> i've seen.   kpackage will also interface with it.  I'm not a big fan of 
> either.

I just use the shell commands; aptitutde is curses, I think.


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