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Re: apt-get question



On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:25:28PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i
> never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i
> keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search <something>'
> but none of my machines with apt can search :( (invalid option)

apt-cache search string
apt-cache show packagename

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