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Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 	Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
>  apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
>  informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
>  just use the regexp search in emacs or less).

What does that give you that `apt-cache search` doesn't?

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