Re: Aptitude Advanced Searching
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:03:20AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > I've been reading the documentation on Aptitude available in
> > /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README, trying to figure out how to search based
> > on multiple terms but I just can't get it quite right.
> >
> > As a test I've been trying to search for a non-official package,
> > installed (Not using "~i" though), with a description of "compression".
> >
> > Using the command:
> >
> > aptitude search "!~Odebian" "!~g" "!~v" "~dcompression"
> >
> > Should work, but it seems to omit each of the options as ONE search
> > string and searches them all separately. Is there any way to get all of
> > these terms working with each other, instead of individually?
> >
>
> Just run them all together without the intervening " and spaces.
>
Thank you, that worked perfectly.
>
> > Also, how do I search for descriptions with multiple words? "~dsuper
> > nintendo" doesn't seem to work, and neither does "~dsuper" "~dnintendo".
> >
>
> Try ~dsuper~dnintendo
>
That worked perfectly too. Thanks for the help!
I personally think this belongs in the notes for Aptitude, who do I
contact about trying to get that added to the notes?
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