Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:20:43 -0500

    On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:49:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:

    >
    > So, um, is there a way to list all packages that are in a particular
    > section? My aptitude test must have been naive, but I'm not sure why.
    > Other than my just-now "reverse-engineered" approach of trying the url
    > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/ , that is.
    >

    Hey Monique,

    aptitude ~s<section>

    e.g.

    aptitude ~sbase

    Searching is described in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README. 

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