Aptitude--any users!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 01:13, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 03:20 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 00:19, Chris Jones
>> <christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:
>>> Still, thats just a matter of opinion. I personally have never
>>> found anything I need to do I cannot with apt-get. I haven't really
>>> tried aptitude so cannot comment how much better it might be.
>>>
>>
>> $ aptitude search mysql
>>
>> So far as I know, apt-get has no similar function.
>
> Really?
>
> Try:
> $ apt-cache search mysql
>
> and in reference to your other:
> $ apt-cache show aptitude
>
> and
>
> $ man apt-get
> $ man apt-cache
>
> Do those not work for you?
>

Thanks Gary. I did not know about apt-cache. I've seen it mentioned a
few times but for some reason I did not conflate it with apt-get for
purposes of this thread. I assume, then, that apt-cache is a
dependency of apt-get, in that any system with apt-get installed will
have also apt-cache? This is good to know.


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