> chomiak7737 at att.net wrote: > > I was able to install the debian git package but so far looking at the > > information for that has proved more confusing than enlightening. I'm sure ;apt-cache search <pkg info>' and apt-show <pkg>' are your friends when searching out packages: alias inst='aptitude -q install' alias show='apt-cache show' alias srch='apt-cache search' alias updt='aptitude -q update; echo -e "\a"' alias upgr='aptitude -q safe-upgrade; echo -e "\a"' Michael