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Posted: Oct. 17 2005,13:48 QUOTE

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?


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Posted: Oct. 17 2005,14:26 QUOTE

not apt-get search

apt-cache search

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


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Posted: Oct. 17 2005,18:42 QUOTE

My apologies, I found a useful manual here:

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


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