New Kubuntu User

[Nils Kassube]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I am reading
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/%20RedHat
>EnterpriseLinuxAndFedora but still am a bit confused on a few tasks. In
> RHEL, if I do a # yum list \*ldap\* I get every package name that has
> ldap returned in the form such that I can copy any one of those and do
> a # yum install <...> and it fetches it. Is the only way to do this in
> Kubuntu by # apt-cache dumpavail and then grepping for "Package:" +
> <search string>? Or is there a cleaner way to do this?

If you don't insist on using the command line you could use a graphical 
package manager like synaptic or adept. Search for a package by 
description or name and from the search results tag the one you want to 
install.


Nils