On Thursday 05 January 2017 03:28:23 Sven Hartge wrote: > Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: > > Thoughts? I'll submit a bug report if warranted but I thought I'd get the > > community's opinion first. > > aptitude search the package name and only the package name by default. > > If you want to search inside the description, you have to search like > this: > > aptitude search "~dsip" > > See here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html
And then there is apropos https://debian-administration.org/article/614/Commands_you_might_have_missed_apropos If apt and aptitude were identical there would be no point in having both. Lisi
