From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 18:51: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorelink.com (calvin.shorelink.com [209.31.227.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B995A1510F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grep@shorelink.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by shorelink.com with smtp id m112mGy-002vhyC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2); Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:49:42 -0700 (PDT) From: George Bonser Reply-To: grep@oriole.sbay.org To: Nate Cc: Roger Rabbit , questions@freebsd.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) In-Reply-To: <19990709170751.A3032@laptop.ompages.com> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Nate wrote: > There is a new app. It's aptly called 'apt'. Now the command > 'apt-get install ' will download precompiled applications > + dependencies from debian servers. Then 'dpkg -r ' > deletes it. It is quite easy. There is also apt-find which is an ncurses package navigator but not quite as handy as dselect (does not show package description on the same screen, you must go to information screen separately. I liked that feature because I could navigate and watch package descriptions rather than names) and there is gnome-apt which is a navigator for X. The latest apt-find appears to work well enough as of last night. I have not used gnome-apt yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message