[Malvern] Concerning apt-get.

[geoff]

Darren Beale wrote:
> I normally have two terminals open and in one I apt-cache search
> <string> then paste the items I want to install in a log line into the
> second.
>
> apt-get -y install aLib bLib bLib-dev
Well, that is what I usually do, and it works well.
However, you really need a list of all the candidate packages handy,
and I use the next machine  hostname: "gwy" for that.

The reference to disaster is the possibility of cocking up the regex !
Debian is fine !



Best regards,

Geoff