On Fri 10/Jan/2020 01:35:55 +0100 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 09.01.20 17:44, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: >> >> Synaptic is convenient as it allows to search for keywords, e.g. "pdf", and >> choose a package that does the task at hand. Google does the same, but is >> not >> version specific. > > For many years I have found "apt-cache search <sometext>", piped to more > or grep for further refining, eminently satisfactory. Yes, "pdf" is a > sufficiently vague query to elicit a surfeit of matches, but when I look > for e.g. "avr", the matchlist is very concise.
apt-cache, yes! That works very well. If I pipe through less rather than more I can restrict the output by, say, '&view', and examine a package by issuing '!apt-cache show package| less'... Thanks Ale -- _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
