New Kubuntu User

[Michael Zoet]

Nils Kassube schrieb:
> 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.
>   
On the command line you can use:

dpkg -l \*ldap\*

The -l option is the same as "yum list ..."

When you find the package name you can do

apt-get install <PACKAGE_NAME>

and you are done on the command line ;-). No need for a GUI :-)

Michael



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