Searching package descriptions

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On 13 Feb 2007 09:36:09 -0800
Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:

> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Don't forget that 'aptitude search tcl' also searches only packages
> > names.
> 
> The ara and xara packages allow for keyword searching in the
> description field.  I use xara-gtk in the simple mode, and it has an
> easy form based interface for searching.

Aptitude does this this too, just not by default:

'aptitude search ~dtcl'.
And 'apt-cache search' does it by default.

Celejar