[plug] VERY basic debian question

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> > Now all I need to do is workout the naming scheme.
> > So I can apt-get install what I need.
> 
> Not quite sure what you mean by "the naming scheme", but if you've done an
> "apt-get update" then you should find a list of available packages and
> descriptions in /var/lib/dpkg/available, and a "dpkg -s <package-name>"
> will tell you whether or not you've installed a given package.

"apt-cache search foo" will often find packages related to foo that are
available. It's probably just the same as looking at the above directory,
but faster.

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