Web repo browser
Alexander Volovics
awol at home.nl
Sun Oct 7 09:31:12 UTC 2007
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:42:30PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:32 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > Zhukov Pavel wrote:
> > > Does we have something like http://packages.ubuntu.com ?
> > Not that I know of. There's repoview, but it has no capability to
> > search. There's also the PackageDB, but right now that's mostly for
> > developers to manage permissions and such on the packages. It may
> > grow the ability to display more user-focused information, but I don't
> > if that's planned for anytime soon.
> > The Debian package database (which Ubuntu uses), is fairly handy.
> Actually I find it not that handy. It is obscure how you add third party
> software the the Ubuntu repo list. Where are the Dell wireless programs
> found?
Use 'Synaptic'. Subscribe to all repos (using synaptic config)
en do a 'search'. You can't have it any easier than that.
Alexander
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