How do I find a particular piece of software in the repos?

Fri Apr 27 20:34:06 UTC 2007

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:29 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
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> So how do I find out of joe is in a repo? 

Did you try 'apt-cache search joe' ?

scott at test1138:~$ apt-cache search joe
cl-ubf - Common Lisp Universal Binary Format Library
flight-of-the-amazon-queen - a fantasy adventure game
gidentd - RFC1413 compliant IPv4/IPv6 ident daemon
jftpgw - Joe's FTP Proxy/Gateway
joe - user friendly full screen text editor
jwm - Very small lightweight pure X11 window manager with tray and menus
newbiedoc - Documentation by and for newbies
amoeba-data - Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess (data)

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood