On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:09, Mike Chambers wrote: > In synaptic, your able to see/view packages, as part of the > repository that your connecting to, that are not installed on your > system. You may then select those and add them. > > On up2date, you can only update packages already installed, but no > way to view what you don't have already. > > I know add/remove packages allows you to do this, but only for CD of > the core distro? Or can it do what I am referring to already? > > And if not, any chance it's been thought over to add this > functionality to up2date GUI? >From the command line. up2date --showall will list all available packages. up2date -i <package> will install new packages. I don't use the GUI so can't say for sure about that aspect of up2date. Regards, Mike Klinke
