On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:12:28AM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > On Sunday 18 June 2006 07:08 am, Stephen wrote: > > 'aptitude search <package>' works for me. I have never really needed to > > use apt-cache or apt-file to search for applications. I've always used > > 'aptitude search foo'. For example 'aptitude search webmin' will bring up > > all the webmin packages available to you to and indicate their status > > <ie> installed (A)uto, (C)onfigured etc. > > > > Then if you wish more information on a specific package, 'aptitude show > > package.foo' will give you the dependencies and what the package > > does/is. > > > > HTH > > I like to use grep to narrow down particular packages, especially things such > as modules. For example, if I need MySQL support for PHP4, I'll use the > following to find all packages related to PHP and MySQL: > 'aptitude search php4 | grep mysql' > the result is: > v php4-cgi-mysql - > i php4-mysql - MySQL module for php4 > instead of a long list of PHP packages and then trying to spotting the one > related to MySQL. Interprocess piping/filtering is the best!
Hey, that's pretty cool. I never thought of adding a grep pipe.
Thanks !
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Regards
Stephen
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