On Wed, 28 May 2003, Brian Johnson wrote: > perhaps an apt-get or yum install example would show that this is fairly easy > > unfortunately, I don't know the package names .. it would be better if there was a > way to browse a apt-get or yum repository for package names/descriptions > > Maybe there is and I just don't know it .. yet Synaptic is nice for browsing what's available, or you can try "apt-cache search" which searches based on the name and package descriptions too, for example on my box: [pmatilai@xxxx pmatilai]$ apt-cache search dvd dvdrecord - A command line CD/DVD recording program. radvd - A Router Advertisement daemon a52dec - A free ATSC A/52 stream decoder a52dec-devel - Development files needed for a52dec libdvdcss - A library for transparent DVD device access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. libdvdcss-devel - Development files for the libdvdcss. libdvdread - A simple foundation for reading DVD video disks libdvdread-devel - Development files from the libdvdread library. mplayer - Movie player playing most video formats and DVDs ogle - A simple DVD player ogle-devel - Development files for ogle dvd player. subtitleripper - A tool to rip DVD subtitles xine-lib - Xine library. dvd+rw-tools - Toolchain for mastering recordable DVD media ogle_gui - GUI for the OGLE DVD player. okle - KDE frontend to the Ogle DVD player ..or use apt-shell, which is much faster if you intend to do more than one search. - Panu -
