Searching for packages...
Trent Lloyd
lathiat at bur.st
Thu May 12 02:01:28 UTC 2005
Stroller,
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:50 +0100, Stroller 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
You can use the gui tool 'synaptic' (System->Administration->Synaptic
Package Manager)
This has a search function as well as installation, upgrades, etc.
The command line command you want is 'apt-cache searach'
For example
lathiat at ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search sshd
openssh-server - Secure shell server, an rshd replacement
hsftp - Ssh client with look and feel of a FTP client
libjsch-java - Java secure channel implementation
libjsch-java-doc - Java secure channel documentation and examples
ssh-krb5 - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH with Kerberos)p
webmin-sshd - SSH server control module for webmin
lathiat at ubuntu:~$
And then you can install the requested package like this
lathiat at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
openssh-server
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 260kB of archives.
[.....]
And you don't want to use dselect, if anything, try aptitude. :)
> 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.
The linux headers are linux-headers-386
You could "apt-cache search linux headers"
Cheers,
Trent
>
> In Gentoo, installing `sshd` would have gone something like:
>
> $ sudo emerge sshd
> Password:
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sshd".
>
> $ emerge -qs ssh
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : ssh ]
> [ Applications found : 23 ]
>
> * app-crypt/pam_ssh
> * app-crypt/ssh-multiadd
> * app-shells/rssh
> * dev-haskell/hsshellscript [ Masked ]
> * dev-java/j2ssh
> * dev-perl/net-ssh-perl
> * net-analyzer/scanssh
> * net-libs/libssh
> * net-misc/autossh
> * net-misc/gtk2-ssh-askpass
> * net-misc/kssh
> * net-misc/nxssh
> * net-misc/openssh
> * net-misc/ossh
> * net-misc/ssh
> * net-misc/ssh-installkeys [ Masked ]
> * net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass
> * net-misc/zssh
> * sys-fs/sshfs-fuse [ Masked ]
> * sys-libs/pam_ssh_agent [ Masked ]
> * www-misc/nssha1 [ Masked ]
> * x11-terms/clusterssh [ Masked ]
> * x11-terms/pssh
>
> $ emerge -s openssh ossh ^ssh$
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : openssh ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * net-misc/openssh
> Latest version available: 3.9_p1-r2
> Latest version installed: 3.8.1_p1-r1
> Size of downloaded files: 929 kB
> Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/
> Description: Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release
> License: as-is
>
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : ossh ]
> [ Applications found : 2 ]
>
> * net-misc/autossh
> Latest version available: 1.2g
> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> Size of downloaded files: 19 kB
> Homepage: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/
> Description: Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
> License: BSD
>
> * net-misc/ossh
> Latest version available: 1.5.12
> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> Size of downloaded files: 350 kB
> Homepage: ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/krypto/ossh/
> Description: another SSH implementation
> License: as-is
>
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : ^ssh$ ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * net-misc/ssh
> Latest version available: 3.2.9.1-r1
> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> Size of downloaded files: 2,216 kB
> Homepage: http://www.ssh.com/
> Description: SSH.COM free for Non-Commercial Use ssh version
> License: ssh
>
> $ sudo emerge openssh
> ...
>
> What is the Ubuntu equivalent of `emerge --search` (or of `esearch`,
> the indexed search tool), please?
> I find that I can search in `dselect` using the "/" key, but this
> doesn't show all the matches in one place - eg qt-dev-tools are not
> very near libqt3-dev, making results hard to review.
>
> Many thanks in advance for all replies,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
--
Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.
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