<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:35 PM, arne anka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openmoko@ginguppin.de">openmoko@ginguppin.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Or you could install aptitude and use aptitude search. aptitude search<br>
> vi<br>
> will list all the packages and descriptions involving vi.<br>
<br>
</div>aptitude is rather an overkill -- and<br>
aptitude search foo<br>
returns a result far more confusing than helpful.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I agree it is abit overkill for the moko...especially for the screen size.<br>But in daily use on his Xubuntu laptop, i'd certainly recommend aptitude over synaptic.<br>Always nice to know the CLI alternatives to the GUIs you use. =)<br>
<br>-Dan Staley<br>