Better way to see packages overview, bugs etc.

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Hi shirish

On May 8, 2007, at 1:54 AM, shirish wrote:
> ...
> Right now the only convenient way of seeing packages within Ubuntu is
> go to https://launchpad.net/  then click on ubuntu then type in the
> package name. Is a newbie to launchpad supposed to know that he needs
> to click on Ubuntu & then find the package name. Mostly the newbies
> would try to put the packagename or whatever info. they have in the
> search (like google) .
>      For e.g. I am going to use 'galternatives'  ( a package I
> recently found & like) , now if I enter it on the front page in the
> search project it gives me an error saying that the project is not
> registered. It does not give me any indication what other alternatives
> are there.
> ...

Thanks for mentioning this. This is already reported as a bug.
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/3153>

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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