Web repo browser
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 6 20:42:30 UTC 2007
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?
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