On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:59:00PM +0000, davidson wrote: > It is my understanding that fancy package management tools that I > don't use myself (like aptitude, synaptic, etc) can search for > packages that Provide 'www-browser', or for packages with Tag > 'web::browser'. Maybe somebody familiar with such fancy tools can > chime in and explain how to do this. > > Myself, I search for web browser packages like so: > > $ apt-cache search web browser | grep -i 'web.*browser'
What you want is a list of package that "provide" the www-browser virtual package. The only way I currently know to get this is: apt-cache showpkg www-browser | sed '1,/Reverse Provides/d'
