Searching for packages...

Stroller Linux.Luser at myrealbox.com
Fri May 13 03:10:17 UTC 2005


On May 12, 2005, at 1:03 am, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>> What is the Ubuntu equivalent of `emerge --search` (or of `esearch`, 
>> the indexed search tool), please?
>
>  apt-cache search what_to_search
>  apt-get install whatever_you_ve_found

Many thanks to all who replied - I think M. Le Saint's comments will be 
a valuable addition to the wiki.

>> I find that I can search in `dselect` using the "/" key, but this
>
>  Don't use dselect. It hurts.

Yes, it did.

Stroller.





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