once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond > inelegance, > and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that > there are > two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we > choose > apt over dselect or dselect over apt. > > seems like debian should strive to make apt and dselect front ends for > the > same package management system. :( > > anyway, your suggestion worked. much thanks! > > pete >
I thought it was weird when I first discovered, and even a pain as I couldn't discover why things weren't being listed. I've just got used to using apt-cache now, also because it searches through the describtions and other greater details of the packages. Hereward
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