Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:09:29PM +1030, 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).
>
> 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?
I run into this every time I install on a new box. I do a multi-term
search:
mc ~dcommander
Since only mc has both a package name containing 'mc' and the word
'commander' in the description.
doug
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