From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Cc: Charles Russell <worwor@bellsouth.net>; "debian-science@lists.debian.org" <debian-science@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: how to install metapackages
heh... damn me and the old dselect dpkg frontend, which I
installed a while ago solely for -l ;) so, try
apt-cache search --names-only '^science-*'
;)
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi,
> I couldn't find them with dpkg
> $ dpkg -l science\*
> No packages found matching science*.
> $ dpkg -l 'science*'
> No packages found matching science*.
> $ dpkg -l 'science-*'
> No packages found matching science-*.
> However I found them with;
> $ apt-cache policy science*
> B.R.
> SL
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