On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 21:11:23 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > aptitude search '~g' > > And that returns an equally lengthy list, all prefaced with an 'id'. No > clue what that means as I don't believe I have the reference manual.
Not needed. Use the command: $ aptitude then type "?" without the quotes and scroll down. Cheers, David.