Debian Packages

[Mike Coleman]

"Charles K. Lee II" <chuckx at cold-sun.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:50:30PM -0800, jose sanchez wrote:
> > Is there a website to download debian packages like
> > there is for rpms (rpmfind.net)?
> 
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> 
> Each package page contains a "Go To Download Page" button which has a list
> of a variety of mirrors from which you can download the package.

Note however that usually one just does a

        # apt-get install foo

as root to install a package called foo (preceded as needed by a

        # apt-get update

).  You might need to troll the Debian site to find out exactly what the
packages you're interested in are named.

Mike