"Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jake R. Johnson wrote: >> how do i install ncurses? > >atp-get install <package that has ncurses in it> > >How to discover the name of <package that has ncurses in it> is the >question for which I currently have no good answer. Scrolling through >6900 packages in dselect takes too much time and is too error prone (at >least, when *I* do it). So far the best I've found is: > >grep Package:.*ncurses /var/lib/dpkg/available | less
grep-dctrl is a very handy package for this. 'grep-available ncurses' will show packages whose control information contains "ncurses", although of course that gets you everything that depends on ncurses too; 'grep-available -P ncurses' will just search package names; 'grep-available -nsPackage -P ncurses' will only show you package names in the output; you get the idea, there are many options to play with. 'apt-cache search ncurses' is useful as well. Note that you can do searches in dselect: '/ncurses', Enter, and then '\' to repeat the search. If you want to find a package containing a given file, go to http://packages.debian.org/ and use the search form there. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
