Package List and Description

[John Thompson]

Thom Paine wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:18, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
>
>>As for me, if I want information on a package I don't have installed, I
>>usually use synaptic to see it, since I'm an avid apt user. Yum/up2date
>>may have a similar way to do this.

> Does that still work if the package isn't installed?
> 
> I was thinking of the summary that flashes by when you are installing
> Fedora. Is that the same one?

I use Red Carpet or yumi for this, and yes, it does show descriptions of 
packages that haven't been installed.  The header information provides 
this when the package manager downloads the list of available updates.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)