How do I know which package is which?

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

What I meant was Synaptic does not say about GNU Plot. I am aware of
that everything is appearing at Synaptic that I've installed or that I
can install.

Soo-Hyun

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:32:32 +0100, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:10:41 +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For example, if I would like to install GNU Plot, how do I know to
> > which I need to type when I do "sudo apt-get install <what-to-say>"?
> >
> > Let say, how do I see all of the package lists which can be installed
> > by 'apt-get'? I've looked up Synaptic but seems it doesn't say
> > everything.
> 
> What do you mean by "seems it doesn't say everything"
> 
> Everything you can install should show in synaptic.
> 
> /Erik
>