Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > A very good question which had plagued me in my initial Debian days. > Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages/ and do a search on the > package U want to install. Say, I want to install gnome-core and I do a > search wherein a return list of all the packages needed to satisfy > dependencies is shown. Another way is to fire up dselect and select the "apt" access method. U must add the line deb "http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main" in /etc/apt/sources.list for the latest packages. Once u understand how the various packages are grouped together in the archive, it becomes a lot easier to search for packages. Say u want to know about the packages available for creating CD's, the logical place where it will be located is in the /otherosfs directory. If are looking for audio mixers, the place to look for would be the /sound directory. I hope u have a better idea now. The most authoritative doc on the subject is the policy manual, so read it again! -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - St. Albert's College Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 Cochin India -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.