On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:43:23PM -0600, Scot Jenkins wrote: > Ok, so the Debian packages search site[1] has been down almost a month now > because of a security exploit. Being a Debian newbie, where else can > I look to see what packages are available if I don't know their names? > 'dpkg -p <pkgname>' only works if I know the name of the package. Check out dselect or aptitude. I like dselect, but it's considered a little old school, and it can get you in trouble if you're too quick on the keyboard. I saw a guy, and I still don't know how he did it, but he hit uninstall and dselect uninstalled every package on his computer, including dselect itself. dan _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list