On 02/16/2013 10:01 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
On 17/02/13 14:56, david wrote:
OK. How can I use apt-get to tell me exactly what "pkgname" is when I
don't know
what the package is named? Or grab a package's changelog?
apt-get changelog puredata
that downloads and displays the changelog of the current installable
version
apt-cache search jack audio
... it lists packages by searching the short descriptions
apt-cache rdepends puredata or apt-cache depends jack
depending on what you are after these can be useful as well
but using apt-get and command line a couple of other packages are very
useful as well ...
apt-show-versions -R jack
this will look for packages available in the repos by part of a name,
using a regex .. ok so the -R is a little cryptic, but if you prefer use
--regex or --regex-all
apt-file search bin/axi-cache
this one lets you find what packages any file available in any of
your repositories is in (it uses a local index), so if you are looking
for a particular file use that. axi-cache is a xapian index for some of
this stuff.
It will also list the files in a package.
Thanks. FWIW, anything involving regex is cryptic. ;-)
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