> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [teach to fish mode]
Yes, by all means! > apt-cache search newbiedoc > newbiedoc Well, what is obvious to the experienced user, is something entirely new to the newbie. I realized that # aptitude search <packagename> would search for uninstalled packages, but I didn't infer that this meant _all_ the stable packages that were available. Now that I realize this and tested it, indeed I could have spared myself the google search with its dead-end lead. In retrospect, since there's a list of all packages on my machine, I knew in principle what's available, but I was just not connecting those dots. > apt-cache show newbiedoc I tried this on an uninstalled package (mysql), and nothing was returned. But shouldn't this command have exposed information contained in the cache, even for uninstalled packages? > Other packages to download for self help: > apt-howto - A Guide to APT > doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free) > or > doc-linux-nonfree-text - Linux HOWTOs in ASCII format (non-free) > > [teach mode off] Wayne, don't apologize. Much appreciated. Just to show you I'm in a "learning mode", when I could not install doc-linux-nonfree-text, I ran apt-cache search and found out that it is properly "doc-linux-text". That I downloaded. Sure enough, it pops up in /usr/share/doc/doc-linux-text ;-) Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
