Re: Apt question

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On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 10:15, Haley Crowe wrote:
> Hello all.  I've been doing a little research on apt for Linux.  If I'm
> understanding it correctly, all it does is compare the packages you have
> installed to what is available out on freshrpms (or where ever you tell
> it to look), and download the packages that are updated and packages
> that it is dependent on.  Is that correct?  I just wanted to make sure
> that I'm understanding it correctly before I dive into it.
> 
> Any tips or info anyone might have would be appreciated!
> 

Pretty much it.  There is an apt-cache program that allows searching of
packages for keywords too.

Bret 


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