Apt-get :: apt-get search for packages

It was my understanding that you could use:

sudo apt-get search <name of package>

in order to search for available packages in your repositories. However, I saw in DSL that search was not an available command. Is that something I can enable, and if not, how do you locate the specific name of the package you are looking for?

not apt-get search

apt-cache search

This is an easily googlable question. Google is your friend.

My apologies, I found a useful manual here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html

original here.