On 19 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote:
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Thank you very much for answers.
> > 4. Let's suppose that I know the name of the program but I do not know
> > what package it is in. I have my CDs, but do not have access to Debian
> > search site. Can I use apt, dpkg or other tool to search my packages for
> > occurence of this program?
>
> You can search through your whole APT cache via 'apt-get search
> <pattern>'; or you can also search via dpkg -l. See the man pages.
$ apt-get search xfontsel
E: Invalid operation search
dpkg -l searches only in package headers:
$ dpkg -l xfontsel
No packages found matching xfontsel.
Maybe search options where added after potato was released?
Regards,
Andrzej
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