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Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

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On 11/29/2016 7:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 6:06 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> On Ter, 29 Nov 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> On 11/28/2016 9:24 PM, Dave Thayer wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:26:47AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>>> I went to https://packages.debian.org/stable/ looking for
>>>>> test utilities.
>>>>> The closest heading I found was "Utilities"
>>>>> [https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/].
>>>>> The only relevant entry I found there was "memtester (4.3.0-3)".
>>>>> I did not find "memtest86+" which I've used many times [It
>>>>> was listed under
>>>>> "Similar packages:" on
>>>>> https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/memtester].
>>>>> I found nothing for testing hard disks or video subsystems
>>>>> <closest being
>>>>> monitor resolution tests>.
>>>>
>>>> p.d.o has a pretty good search function, this should point you
>>>> in the
>>>> right direction:
>>>> <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=memtest>
>>>
>>> That search function is not suitable. Back in the days when a
>>> library's catalog was a physical set of card-files there were
>>> typically three "file cabinets" - one each for title, author,
>>> and subject cards. By analogy, p.d.o only has information from
>>> "title cards". I need a subject index.
>>
>> I don't think there exists exactly what you want. debtags[0]
>> might be close, but I'm not sure how is the tagging status going.
>> There might be packages with insufficient tags (or even none at
>> all).
>>
>> [0]https://wiki.debian.org/Debtags
>
> I just looked at the intro of 
> https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html .
> It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see a day of 
> interesting reading ahead.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
I'm afraid the days of the published OS document containing the 
permutated index are long gone.

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Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-28 13:30 +0100
  Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Dave Thayer <debian1633317.dmthayer@recursor.net> - 2016-11-29 05:00 +0100
    Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
        Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 13:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-29 14:00 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 15:20 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
          Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Verde Denim <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-29 15:40 +0100
            Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 16:00 +0100
              A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in  official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-12-01 00:40 +0100
                Re: A workaround was -[Re: Index of hardware test utilities available  in official Debian repositories] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-01 04:50 +0100
      Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian  repositories Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-29 18:40 +0100

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