Ernest Baca wrote:
> Cool,
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I have little experience with Debian as I use it 
> for my bootable CD.  That is what I love about Linux.  I learn something 
> new every day.  Even the simple things excite me.  On the apt-cache does 
> it search the description of the package?  Does Debian have a global 
> update option like Gentoo?  Let me know, as I am not that Debian savy.  
> I was speaking from personal experience.

Yep my gentoo knowledge is certainly not up to par :). apt-cache will 
give a small description of the package. Usually when searching through 
software I use dselect though. It allows you to categorize the package 
database, search through it, see full descriptions of software, etc. Hmm 
global update? Well 'apt-get update' will update the package database 
and from there you can 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade'...or 
better yet 'apt-get dselect-upgrade'.
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