On Mon, 3 May 2004, Dave Stevens wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently installed apt-get for FC1 and have installed several packages > astonishingly easily. Very nice. I don't know how to tell what packages are > available or where there is a directory of such packages. Can someone point > me in the right direction, please? "apt-cache pkgnames" to see all the gory details. That (currently) lists all "virtual" packages as well, to change to more reasonable output add APT::Cache::AllNames "false"; ..to /etc/apt/apt.conf (will be default from next release) "apt-cache search <searchword>" to look for packages containing <searchword>. Perhaps a nicer way is to use apt-shell, or better yet install "synaptic" which is a GUI frontend to apt which allows graphically browsing packages, their descriptions etc. - Panu -
