worrbase » apt-echo http://www.worrbase.com Highlighting the thrilling adventures of William Orr Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Useless programs are the best programs http://www.worrbase.com/2010/01/31/useless-programs-are-the-best-programs/ http://www.worrbase.com/2010/01/31/useless-programs-are-the-best-programs/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:02:31 +0000 worr http://www.worrbase.com/?p=17 A couple of weekends ago, a couple of friends and I were joking about making a useless Debian utility called apt-echo. So that weekend, I sat down and wrote it in Perl. I also went and made a Debian package, complete with relevant documentation. I never really put it anywhere.

So I got bored and decided to make a really an awesome web 1.0 page for apt-echo, as well as off it for download. I even set up a github repo for it. If you want to see the site, it’s right here.

So go ahead, install it. Maybe someone will find it useful one day. It’s slightly faster than aptitude search, and it has few dependencies. Send me an e-mail if there are bugs. Or if you like it. Or if you found a way for it to be useful.

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