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[Ray Wells]

Paul,

Maybe it's just me but I find apt-cache search uninviting. To each their 
own but at least we've presented options.

Ray vk2tv

On 23/10/13 08:36, Paul Burton wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2013 5:29 PM, "Ray Wells" <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Yes synaptic is a front end for apt but it's much easier to use,
> especially when one is looking for files with changed names. Synaptic
> allows searching on partial names and one can scroll though a list, looking
> for likely candidates and reading the notes for particular files to see if
> there's a possible "match". For me the synaptic gui compensates for my age
> induced inability to remember what I've read in command line. I reserve my
> use of apt-get for when I know exactly what I need.
>
> IIRC, you can use "apt-cache search" and use wildcards (or maybe even
> regex) to search for packages on the commands line.
>
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