On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, > etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. > Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. > > My backports repo is enabled per Debian: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free > > Thanks. > > B >
according to the aptitude man page: -t <release>, --target-release <release> For example: aptitude -t wheezy-backports search postfix You can replace search with another operation like show or install. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130520041141.gd17...@uriel.asininetech.com