Re: Considering switch back to Linux, some questions

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> writes:

> Best is to use apt-search

Apt-search sounds grand.  Can someone enlighten me on this?

root@appel:~# apt-get install apt-search
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package apt-search

root@appel:~# apt-get install search
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package search

root@appel:~# apt-get install aptsearch
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package aptsearch

root@appel:~# apt-get search
E: Invalid operation search

root@appel:~# apt-get --search
E: Command line option --search is not understood

root@appel:~# zgrep search Contents-powerpc.gz | grep apt
root@appel:~# 

Uhh...  Well

wget ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Contents-powerpc.gz

and zgrep work.

Jan.


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