Command line tools for admin

[John Scott]

Since coming over from suse I've been lucky by not having to do that much on the command line. Now I'm having some major problems with Ubuntu installs that just stop working after an update. Under Suse I could use Yast for most command line admin and sax2 for X configuration. Are there Ubuntu equivalents? I'd like to do command line updates of system packages and install missing items from a distro-level package list. For example I tried to switch to the proprietary radeon driver using the "additional drivers" tool and this left the gui unusable after restart. Nautilus crashes over and over. So I downloaded the ATI driver from AMD but can't install it because kernel headers aren't installed. If there is a command line package manager that can show me all the packages for this version of Ubuntu so I can select and install what I need, that would be great. Apt-get alone won't cut it without a list of packages to install.


Anyway, are there comprehensive tools to do this stuff or should I nuke the whole install?


John Scott
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