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apt-suggest



there's probably a better implementation of this, but i find this script pretty useful:

dilly:~$ cat `which apt-suggest`
#!/bin/bash
lists_dir=/var/lib/apt/lists
grep -hs Package: $lists_dir/* | grep -i $1 | sort | uniq
dilly:~$

it might be even better if "apt-get install" would try to make suggestions instead of just saying that it doesn't know about a given package.

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Elliott Hughes, BlueArc Engineering



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