[ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?

[gav]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:50:34PM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find 
> out about applications?

aptitude search <term>

I've used http://freshmeat.net quite a bit in the past, but the package
repositories in Debian/Ubuntu are so comprehensive I now find everything I need
using aptitude.


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Gav Ford
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