Re: apt-get question

[Tal Danzig <tal@libranet.com>]

Hello

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:25:28 -0700, Nate Amsden said:

[snip]

:  
:  you can 'clear' the cache if you want by running apt-get clean.  you can
:  also specify another location to download to, you can also tell it to
:  download *only* and not install(see manpage for apt-get), one thing apt
:  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)

This is not an apt-get function, rather apt-cache

so the command would be: apt-cache search <blah>

or you could use console-apt and do a full text search.

Tal

 
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