How to determine what "apt-get" can install?

["John Miskinis" <miskinis@hotmail.com>]

Hello,

  Pardon my ignorance.  Up until now, I have used a command such
as "dpkg -l "*"|grep -i WHATEVER" when I am trying to find out the
package name(s) of things relating to WHATEVER.  At the moment, I
am trying to find out what pieces of "imlib" stuff I might be
missing, as I can't compile wmakerconf.  So I execute:

 dpkg -l "*" | grep -i imlib

I get a list of a few packages, several names are truncated, and
most have "no description available".  Is there a better way to
find out what is actually available based on my sources.list file?

John


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