How do you know what app is available from where, and by what name?

Tue Dec 13 22:51:43 UTC 2005

On 12/13/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
>
> 12132005 0837 GMT-5
> Lets start with this: I like to use Opera sometimes instead of Firefox
> so, I want to download it. But since its not in Synaptic, I do sudo
> apt-get install opera. I receive a message saying its not available by
> that name.
>

Follow me:
[~]$ apt-cache show opera
Package: opera
Version: 8.51-20051114.6
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/web
Maintainer: Christian Westgaard <christian.westgaard at opera.com>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6) | xlibs, libqt3-mt (>= 3.3.4) |
libqt3c102-mt (>= 3.3.4), libstdc++6
Recommends: libmotif (>= 2) | lesstif2, libaspell15
Conflicts: opera-static
Provides: opera-static, www-browser
Replaces: opera-static
Architecture: i386
Filename: pool/non-free/opera/opera_8.51-
20051114.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb
Size: 4169506
Installed-Size: 9328
MD5sum: c40e6f2b7f79b17eb582f5261bba3a6f
Description: The Opera Web Browser
 Welcome to the Opera Web browser. It is smaller, faster,
 customizable, powerful, yet user-friendly. Opera eliminates
 sluggish performance, HTML standard violations, desktop
 domination, and instability. This robust Web browser lets you
 navigate the Web at incredible speed and offers you the best
 Internet experience.
 The binaries were built on a Fedora Core 4 (Stentz) installation using
gcc-4.0.0.

So the opera ubuntu Breezy deb file is in one of my sources. More specific
in my plf (Penguin Liberation Front) source as seen below. If you add the
deb http://pa.... to your /etc/apt/sources.list installing opera is easy
through synaptic ( or apt-get install opera) <http://plf.zarb.org/>

 [~]$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
.
.
.
## PLF Penguin Liberation Front
# http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
. <http://plf.zarb.org/>
.
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