new to Debian

I am new to Debian and just installed Debian Woody. What program do I use to view which programs are available for installation on my 7 cd installation set with a brief discription of each. My SuSE has Yast2 for this purpose. There must be something similar in Debian.

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Looks like that's what I'm looking for. Thanks

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dselect is the standard Debian package manager for CD installs. I don't use SuSE so don't know if this is sufficiently similar to Yast2 to satisfy your needs.

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Dselect is useful but it has a very odd interface. Aptitude is somewhat more friendly and does some of the same things, though it doesnt have all of dselect's features, I used to use it until I got more used to dselect. For apt-get there is a GUI front-end synaptic you might also want to take a look at, though I like to use apt-cache to search and then apt-get to install, since apt-get is quite easy to use.
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Thanks Josh I will give each of these a try and see what works best for me.

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