Re: [CONTRIB] apt-search
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Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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> > Hey.
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> > After getting sick of having to have a browser around to hit
> > packages.debian.org, I wrote a python script that handle it for me.
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> > This way you can do an 'apt-search bash' and see what packages are available.
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> If you run apt-get update,
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> apt-cache search bash
Hm... I didn't think to look there. Interesting.
> is rather more powerful, since it searches the contents of the description
> field.
So does apt-search
apt-search --searchon=description bash
Kevin
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