[plug] VERY basic debian question

[Andrew Howell]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:11:29PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:24:07AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > > Tip: download the Contents-i386.gz file from your nearest mirror and
> > > then if you're looking for something you can zgrep through that file
> > 
> > You'll laugh at this,  I knew I could use that zgrep ... . I even knew
> > where to get the file from.  I was looking for an apt type command that
> > would get it for me :)
> 
> I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned this yet - have you tried
> console-apt? I use it all the time when trying to find a package and am not
> sure what the exact name is. You can use console-apt instead of apt-get for
> most common apt tasks (eg. apt-get install, apt-get update, etc).
> 
> > Yours Tony.
> 
> apt-get install console-apt

Why not just use apt-cache search foo

Andrew

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