Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring
On 2009-02-06 11:39 +0100, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the
> search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc"
> appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc).
You're probably aware that you can use "aptitude install mc", aren't
you?
> How does one get some text in the search box in aptitude to match the
> start of line or end of line of the package name, or alternatively,
> search by description?
The standard chars ^ and $ match the beginning and end of the line,
respectively.
Sven
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