[ale] Package Management System

Jason Etheridge phasefx at magusaptus.com
Sat Jul 26 20:57:20 EDT 2003


On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 08:02 PM, Ray Knight wrote:
> My biggest gripe with Debian package management is the lack of a decent
> graphical package selection program.  If you don't know the name of the
> package you want to install it's a real pain to find.

Yeah, I tend to browse or search http://packages.debian.org/ in lynx, 
control+z, apt-get install packagename

You can also get apt to build from source packages, too.

I like it.

-- Jason

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