Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

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Subject: Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages
From: "Raffaele Morelli" <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:45:00 +0200
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2007/5/8, Serena Cantor <qipaishi2006@yahoo.com>:

I remember, dselect can show available packages.

Can dpkg do that?

apt-cache search package_name
or
apt-get install [tab][tab]

will ask you to show all available packages in the repositories pointed by sources.list

raffaele

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