Searching for packages...

[Michael Beattie]

To search in Ubuntu (really in Debian also) try this:

dpkg -l '[package full or partial name with *'s]'

or read the man page on dpkg and dselect.

You can also run synaptic which is installed by default and it has a
search utility built in.

On 5/11/05, Stroller <Linux.Luser at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've been using mostly Gentoo for the last couple of years, but have
> decided to try (k)Ubuntu on a new-to-me laptop I just bought. I like it
> very much, nice-looking & simple, and after Gentoo the install times
> are just amazingly fast ;), just what I need when I'm on-site with my
> laptop & realise that I need to install a network utility.
> 
> What I don't seem to be able to find is a way to search apt-get's
> database for the stuff I want to install. For instance, one of the
> first things I went to install was `sshd`, and I didn't know the right
> name for the package. I'd already uncommented all the entries in
> /etc/apt/sources/list, but `apt-get install sshd` wasn't doing it, and
> I had to Google on the name of the package. I had a similar problem
> finding kernel sources / headers, which I needed for installing the
> driver for my wireless card.