[Sussex] A rant on using different distributions

Alan Pope alan.pope at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 11:19:13 UTC 2005


On 27/09/05, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
> Gentoo:
>
> emerge -s packageName
> emerge packageName
>
> Debian:
>
> apt-cache search packageName
> apt-get install packageName
>
>
>
> Why do I need to use two seperate tools to find and then install a
> package???
>
>


aptitude search foo
aptitude install foo

:P




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