Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude
Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> 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'
Both the methods work. Thanks for pointing it out. One less annoyance with
aptitude.
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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