Awesome Linux Software

Re:Awesome Linux Software by dozzie on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:20AM (#15063118)

> * aria2: no reference that it is a command line program

> * Deluge: no reference that it is a command line program which requires quite a bit of configuring to get a web gui working

  $ apt-cache show aria2 | grep Tag
  Tag: implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline, network::client,
  $ apt-cache show deluge | grep Tag
  Tag: devel::lang:python, implemented-in::python, interface::x11,

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Re:Awesome Linux Software by laumars on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:00AM (#15063301)

Ah yes, I forgot there was a GTK+ UI for deluge (I've usually messed around with the web UI).

I don't get your point about aria2 though. That just confirms what I posted. That doing a package manager search would give your more information than the linked article.

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Re:Awesome Linux Software by yorwba on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:47AM (#15063240)

Since when does apt-cache show tags? Mine doesn't, I have

  $ apt-cache policy apt | grep Installed
  Installed: 1.2.24

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Re:Awesome Linux Software by laumars on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:05AM (#15063322)

He's using the `show` parameter which does include tags. However you can't really grep it like he had done because the tags can span multiple lines with indentation rather than line prefixes (ie human readable rather than machine readable).

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Re:Awesome Linux Software by yorwba on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:47AM (#15063827)

apt-cache show doesn't show tags for me:

  $ apt-cache show aria2 | grep Tag
  $ echo $?
  1

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Re:Awesome Linux Software by laumars on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:26AM (#15064035)

Does on Debian and has done for a few releases as far as I can recall. I've done it on Wheezy (7.x) boxes and it's still there on an Jessie (8.1) machine I just tested it on.

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