On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:13:35PM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski stated: > On 19 Apr 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > [snip] > 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?
I normally use apt-cache search when lookign for packages. Reagrds Neil -- This one's optimistic
