uh... 

apt-get update
apt-cache search <blah>
apt-get install <blah>

how much easier do you want it?

Chris


On Sunday 21 April 2002 11:23 pm, you wrote:
> I'd have to disagree about it being for advanced users
> only.
>
> I switched to gentoo because I wasn't thrilled with
> the other package management systems. I liked apt ok,
> but I still kind of felt swamped by having to use
> dpkg, apt-get, apt-search, dselect, etc. Now if I want
> something I can "emerge -s <foo>" and if I find it
> "emerge <foo>"...it's that easy. Other than that it's
> pretty much the same :).
>
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