If I want to find out about a package. I mean, like what it actually does, what is the right command, when the package is not installed but apt-cache knows about it?
`apt-cache showpkg <package>' gives some information but doesn't tell you what the package does. If its not installed then dpkg -I doesn't know about it. Combing thru `man apt-cache' I found the -f (full) operator too but `apt-cache -f showpkg <package> still doesn't really tell what a package does. I don't see anymore choices in `man apt-cache' that look likely. `man apt-get' doesn't indicate a such an option either. In case any former redhat users see this, I'm looking for something that works like `rpm -qip <package>' (which also works on ftp sites that allow it) It gives a general blurb that tells what the package does. I guess the next thing after learning what packages do that one has in cache would be to be able to learn what packages do by name, where ever they are. That is, an http or ftp interface that pulls down that info.
