Web repo browser

[Alexander Volovics]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:42:30PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> 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?

Use 'Synaptic'. Subscribe to all repos (using synaptic config)
en do a 'search'. You can't have it any easier than that.

Alexander