On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 08:42:45PM -0700, Ralph Katz wrote:
Try ~$ whatis packagename # for installed packages
That's a useful tool, thanks. It doesn't take package names, it takes
binary program names, or more specifically, manual page names. So it
works if the binary program name is in commo
On 1/2/20 9:48 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
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>
> You can inspect the first line of any package's Description field with
>
> apt show packagename | grep ^Description
Try ~$ whatis packagename # for installed packages
Regards,
Ralph
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:17:39PM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
Hi, and Happy New Year (almost)!
This is something that might be helpful for newbies especially. Was
going through some things on my computer and found a NICE list of
familiar Linux package names with SUPER BRIEF, SUPER SIMPLE one
Hi, and Happy New Year (almost)!
This is something that might be helpful for newbies especially. Was
going through some things on my computer and found a NICE list of
familiar Linux package names with SUPER BRIEF, SUPER SIMPLE one-liners
describing what they do.
The list is from Linux From Scratc
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