How to find out what packages are available?

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:00:43 -0400
"Jan Sneep" <jan at azureservices.ca> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of
> > Nils Kassube
> > Sent: June 2, 2007 9:46 AM
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: How to find out what packages are available?
> >
> >
> > Jan Sneep wrote:
> > > How can I find out what offical Ubuntu packages are available?
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > Can I search the list to find out if a mod_jk or a mod_jk2 connector
> > > package exists?
> >
> > Use the packet manager synaptic -- it has a search button.
> 
> Thanks ... that found it ... says it installed, but not sure it worked ...
> was expecting it to create a workers.properties file, but no ... I'll have
> to keep searching for one.

$ apt-file search workers.properties
libapache-mod-jk: etc/libapache-mod-jk/workers.properties
libapache2-mod-jk: etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties

 
sudo apt-get  install apt-file && sudo apt-file update

apt-file search workers.properties


;-)