On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 08:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm explicitly looking for packages residing in the Debian repository. I > routinely do a web search if I'm unconcerned about where a program comes > from.
By repository, do you mean something else than what you have enabled in your APT sources.list? If you want to search packages you can directly install in your distro, have you tried aptitude? https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html
