[ale] Debian question

[James Sumners]

Or synaptic for the GTK enabled person.

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:58:09 -0500
"Greg" <runman at speedfactory.net> wrote:

> 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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> > Stephen Touset <stephen at touset.org>
> >
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