On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:33:36AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of > > > package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? > > > ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when > > > I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this > > > time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). > > > > That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be > > mount sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /mnt > grep whatever /mnt/public/pub/unix/Linux/debian/dists/hamm/main/Packages | > less > > This will pick up descriptions as well as package names. (you probably > should check contrib and non-free as well) >
You could just grep /var/lib/dpkg/<wherever_the_package_is> but this is not what I was looking for. Sure I know how to do this, but many users would find this confusing to say the least. Chris
