Re: apt-get question
"michael d. ivey" wrote:
>
> 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
ahh ok, cool, thanks! didnt know there was an apt-cache command :))
nate
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