Gentlemen, after I installed "Debian GNU/Linux", I found I had to take extra steps to get the GNU version of a program installed, as some other leading brand alternative was in its stead.
So what is the single command to apt-get install all the GNU versions of everything? Last year I discovered mawk sitting there until I banished it away with apt-get install gawk. Yesterday I realized I had been using mailx all this time while GNU's mailutils were sitting unused. Do I look in Packages.gz for Conflicts:, and then look in Description: for "this is the GNU version of..."? What other other leading brands programs are sitting on my computer when I could have been using a genuine GNU program? What genuine GNU programs should I defer, lest e.g. messages get trunc