need some help to find three packages

[Amit Joshi]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Amit Joshi wrote:
>
> >> You can search using
> > apt-cache search <searchterm>
> >
> > But this tool is not as efficient as the
> > aptitude search <searchterm>
>
> It rather depends what you mean by efficient - aptitude is certainly
> faster, but apt-cache is more likely to find an answer when you aren't
> already certain of the name (and if you know the name, do you really
> need to search?).
>
> apt-cache takes a much looser approach to matching the search term.  I
> generally use apt-cache, and if it returns a huge number of results, I
> might retry with aptitude.
> --
>

Actually the opposite. Its more like if you aren't able to find something in
aptitude, you go for apt-cache which searches with a looser approach. By
efficient I meant that aptitude search <searchterm>  flags the search
results with i, p, v or whatever (making the OP realize whether the software
is installed and stuff like that in a jiffy).

-- 
Regards,
Amit Joshi
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