On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Worse, I should have searched efoX-eSr, to make it clear one shouldn't need to know a package's complete and exact basename including case
That part's easy--the case is lower...
How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to include packages' versions?
Well, that command doesn't show the version, and it only does a prefix search, not a substring search. It has a very specific intended purpose, and this doesn't really seem like the right use case.
Mike Stone