[ale] Debian question

[Greg]

Great !  I love aptitude.  What an ingenious little program !

Thanks,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Stephen Touset
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:14 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Debian question
>
>
> This should really be for the debian-user list--they'll help out with
> anything and everything Debian related.
>
> Either use dselect, which is a required component of all Debian
> installations, or do an `apt-get install aptitude`, and use it. I
> personally switched to aptitude a few months ago, and am loving it.
> However, the dselect is quite worthy on its own.
>
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:51, Greg wrote:
> > OK, I have started the jump to Debian on many of my home
> systems and I have
> > a question, how do you know what packages have been installed
> using apt-get
> > ?  I searched the man pages and the site and all I could find was how to
> > install and remove, but nothing on what has previously been
> installed.  Any
> > pointers ?
> >
> > TIA
> > Greg
> >
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