Re: Potential problem with aptitude search?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 05 January 2017 03:28:23 Sven Hartge wrote:
> Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> > Thoughts? I'll submit a bug report if warranted but I thought I'd get the
> > community's opinion first.
>
> aptitude search the package name and only the package name by default.
>
> If you want to search inside the description, you have to search like
> this:
>
>   aptitude search "~dsip"
>
> See here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html


And then there is apropos
https://debian-administration.org/article/614/Commands_you_might_have_missed_apropos

If apt and aptitude were identical there would be no point in having both.

Lisi