Martin Hermanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> `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.
> have you tried apt-cache show?
Yikes.. I guess the name is kind of a giveaway but the definition in
the man page doesn't come across as giving that kind of information:
show show performs a function similar to dpkg --print-
avail, it displays the package records for the
named packages.
When I saw the part about `records' I just assumed it was stuff like
size version etc. One expects a term like `summary' or the like for
that kind of information. Unless you already know what
dpkg --print-avail
does. Not a good assumption in a man page.
Thanks, I should have tried it I guess but that discription just made
me keep looking.
