[plug] Debian - Package tool Q.

[Andrew Howell]

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 10:59:26PM +0800, Mark Tearle wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I use dselect less and less, and stick to dpkg and apt-get now. However,
> > I'm still resorting to dselect to get info on uninstalled packages, and
> > comparing version numbers.
> > 
> > Is there any way to do this with other tools?? Basically, I'm after:
> >   - List/info of uninstalled but available packages
> >   - Comparison of version numbers between installed and available
> > 
> Try out  apt-find  (it's a package, so apt-get install apt-find :) )

Or gnome-apt if your looking for a GUI version, though it's not exactly
finished yet.

Andrew

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