Yes, on Debian it shows me the full package descriptions as well, but not on Ubuntu. See below: Script started on Thu 31 Jul 2014 09:23:25 PM PDT tony@ns1:~$ aptitude -q show wget Package: wget New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 1.15-1ubuntu1 Priority: standard Section: web Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 651 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libidn11 (>= 1.13), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Recommends: ca-certificates Conflicts: wget-ssl, wget-ssl, wget Provides: wget Provided by: wget Description: retrieves files from the web Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ tony@ns1:~$ apt-cache -q show y[Klynx Package: lynx Priority: extra Section: web Installed-Size: 42 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Original-Maintainer: Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@xxxxxxxxxx> Architecture: all Source: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8pre4-1 Depends: lynx-cur (>= 2.8.8pre4-1) Filename: pool/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx_2.8.8pre4-1_all.deb Size: 4184 MD5sum: 4a6f06434ecc9ae8d2545447b44d749e SHA1: 6c880a88bdb14cb73c8542121d18f4987af59833 SHA256: e2b1581ddfdc22667651520622bc3d7adf0c90f71557703db161b63773f186c0 Description: Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package) Description-md5: 97e502859f1b830fc1dd337e582aed20 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/ Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 9m tony@ns1:~$ exit Script done on Thu 31 Jul 2014 09:25:00 PM PDT On 2014-07-30 10:07 PM, Øyvind Lode wrote: > $ apt-cache show <package> > > The above command gives me the full package description. > I'm running Debian. > > -----Original Message----- > From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Baechler > Sent: 31. juli 2014 06:12 > To: Linux for blind general discussion > Subject: Ubuntu not showing long descriptions > > Hi all, > > I have a really stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer, > even after reading man pages and doing Google searches. How do I get > Aptitude and apt-cache to show the full package descriptions in Ubuntu > 14.04? For some reason, it only gives me a single line package description > no matter what package I look at. I manually looked at the package lists > and they only have a short description as well, so obviously the full > description isn't being downloaded. How can I fix this? Thanks for any > help. It's driving me nuts because I can't figure out what a package does > until I install it. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list