How do I know which package is which?

[David Hart]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 07:00 -0500, lao_V wrote:
> Soo-Hyun Choi Wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > soohyunc at quokka:~ $ sudo apt-cache search gnuplot
> > devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer
> > easier
> > soohyunc at quokka:~ $ 
> > 
> > 
> 
> To me that says gnuplot is:  devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a
> Debian Package maintainer easier????
> 
> If it wasn't available to install then it would come up with something
> like package not found!

'apt-cache search' searches the description for the search term.

david at box:~ $ apt-cache show devscripts | grep gnuplot
Suggests: devscripts-el, build-essential, cvs-buildpackage,
debian-keyring, dupload (>= 2.1) | dput, gnupg, gnuplot,
libdigest-md5-perl, libtimedate-perl, libwww-perl, lintian | linda,
mailx, patch, patchutils, ssh, strace, wdiff, www-browser
      [libtimedate-perl, gnuplot]
                         ^^^^^^^    <----- look here!

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>