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Re: Search Wheezy-backports?



On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Du, 19 mai 13, 20:39:40, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude,
> > etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search
> > Wheezy-backports. Is there one?  I'm sure there is.  I'm just not
> > finding it.
> 
> You didn't tell what exactly are you looking for, but here are some 
> useful searches.

Nothing in particular. Just "in general."  For example say, in the
future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me
trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer version, and
I want to search ONLY backports to see if the newer version is there
before I go elsewhere.  That's all I was thinking. 

> find packages that have a backports version
> 
> $ aptitude search ~Awheeyzy-backports
> 
> find packages that are installed from backports
> 
> aptitude search ~S~Awheezy-backports~i
> 
> See the aptitude manual for more search patterns.

I have very limited experience with aptitude.  Have always used
apt-get.  So, I guess, I've got some studying to do.

Thanks for the info.

B


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