Re: Testing URIs not working
> From: Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>
>
> [teach to fish mode]
Yes, by all means!
> apt-cache search newbiedoc
> newbiedoc
Well, what is obvious to the experienced user, is something entirely
new to the newbie. I realized that # aptitude search <packagename>
would search for uninstalled packages, but I didn't infer that this
meant _all_ the stable packages that were available. Now that I
realize this and tested it, indeed I could have spared myself the
google search with its dead-end lead. In retrospect, since there's a
list of all packages on my machine, I knew in principle what's
available, but I was just not connecting those dots.
> apt-cache show newbiedoc
I tried this on an uninstalled package (mysql), and nothing was
returned. But shouldn't this command have exposed information
contained in the cache, even for uninstalled packages?
> Other packages to download for self help:
> apt-howto - A Guide to APT
> doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free)
> or
> doc-linux-nonfree-text - Linux HOWTOs in ASCII format (non-free)
>
> [teach mode off]
Wayne, don't apologize. Much appreciated.
Just to show you I'm in a "learning mode", when I could not install
doc-linux-nonfree-text, I ran apt-cache search and found out that it
is properly "doc-linux-text". That I downloaded. Sure enough, it pops
up in /usr/share/doc/doc-linux-text ;-)
Haines
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