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Re: About dselect searching function



On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:48:23AM +0800, 50191914@uxmail.cityu.edu.hk wrote:

> In the deselect,we can press "/" to search for a string in the package
> name.
> However,can we try to search for a string in the file description..
> it would be convenient for example,we can search for "news client"
> and find the approiate package if you don't know the name of the package.

For now, you can use "apt-cache search" to do this.

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