Op 11/03/2022 om 3:50 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 09:51, Cousin Stanley <cousinstan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following will display a list of lxqt packages
> that are in the repository and available to install ....
>
> apt-cache search lxqt | grep ^lxqt
>
Much faster:
apt-cache pkgnames lxqt
(apt-cache search will look for "lxqt" in descriptions too, hence the
need to filter those out - apt-cache pkgnames is used by tab
completion)
Cousing Stanley's suggestion has the advantage that it also prints the
short descriptions instead of just the package names. The packages names
are often a bit too cryptic, I think.
To search only in package names but still show the short description you
could also --names-only instead of grep:
apt-cache search --names-only lxqt
or
apt-cache search --names-only ^lxqt
Chris, when you say "Much faster", do you mean faster to type or faster
to execute? Your suggestion is certainly faster and easier to type. But
as for execution speed: on my systems apt-cache search is fast enough
that I don't really care about its execution time. When listing packages
that is; tab completion is a different matter, where every delay can be
quite annoying.
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