Re: Searching in dselect
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of
> > package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)?
> > ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when
> > I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this
> > time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out).
>
> That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be
mount sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /mnt
grep whatever /mnt/public/pub/unix/Linux/debian/dists/hamm/main/Packages |
less
This will pick up descriptions as well as package names. (you probably
should check contrib and non-free as well)
HTH,
Matthew
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