Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

[Andrew Malcolmson <andzy@imap-mail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I
> > want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synaptic all I
> > do is type vim. I could not find a simple way of doing this in aptitude.
> 
> What about '/' (opens the regex search bar) followed by '^vim' <enter>?
> 

You need to open a Flat Package List from the Views menu, then press 'l'
to enter a 'Limit' regep.

I usually do this from the shell, though:

aptitude search '^vim'