Package List before installation?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:24:40PM -0400, James Treleaven wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 05:41:41PM -0600, Dan R. Hunt wrote:
> >>What packages can I expect to be available in the Warty Warthog preview?
> >>
> >>Can someone point me to a list of available packages, before I install?
> >
> >
> >Thousands of packages are available for Ubuntu.  DistroWatch maintains a
> >list of some of the more common software packages:
> >
> >http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
> 
> 
> Really - there must be a way to do this.  With RedHat and Suse I can 
> just peruse the ftp directories to see which packages belong to a release.

In the six months since I wrote that, http://packages.ubuntu.com/ has
been established.  Enjoy.

-- 
 - mdz