Thanks, but that didn't appear to work. I logged out and back in but still no luck. As I said, I looked at the actual downloaded package lists and saw only single line descriptions, so I don't think it's a specific package causing the problem. On 2014-07-30 10:52 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:11:40PM EST, Tony Baechler wrote: >> 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 > > Make sure you have command-not-found and command-not-found-data installed. Ubuntu has modified apt so that it will only show the long description if it has a localized string, and command-not-found ships this data, at least from a quick look around my system. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Have a good day, Tony Baechler tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list