Re: Apt: Searching for "Provides: ..."

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:46:31AM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> > I want to search for all packages which provide xserver.
> >   apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*'
> > This should find xserver-s3, but it doesn't.
> > Any hints?

try
apt-cache showpkg xserver

This shows more than you want (it also shows the packages depending on
xserver), but it does the job.

Frank