Re: tiny trouble

[ha shao <hashao@chinese.com>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:50:37AM +0900, wen@japan.email.ne.jp wrote:
> When I try to search a package name by "apt-cache search" or "dpkg -l |grep xxx",
> the display can not show complete name for a long package name. Could someone
> tell me how to get the complete name of a long package name?

I don't know about you but apt-cache search do give me a full name.
or you can write a script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status or better,
patch dpkg to have a longname option.

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