Listing packages in Console

[Adam Membrey]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:58 am, Alfred Vahau wrote:
> Hi,
> How can I list the packages that are available in command-line?
> Under custom-installation, one gets a console from which one one
> can install the packages selectively. As I've learnt, the command for
> installing packages is
>
> sudo apt-get install package-name
>
> But how do I list the package names to select from?
> In particular, I want to install packages relating to a minimal desktop
> display.
>
> Issuing a startx command results in a Display Not Set error message.
> sudo apt-get install genome as a trial does nothing because there is no
> package by the name of genome. It's called something else.
>
> sudo apt-get install Firefox also results in a Display Not Set message.
>
> I also tried a default installation which installed a lot of packages and
> I tried to remove the unwanted ones using Synaptic PM. Unfortunately
> some of the dependency rules were broken and I found myself in the console
> mode, unable to get back into the Genome desktop.
> Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F7 did not have any effect.
>
> Thanks in advance for the assistance.
>
> Alfred,

If you're wanting to do a search of the apt packages, use apt-cache search
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