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Jules Bean
Jan 16, 2002, 7:00:31 AM1/16/02
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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> Hey.
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> After getting sick of having to have a browser around to hit
> packages.debian.org, I wrote a python script that handle it for me.
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> This way you can do an 'apt-search bash' and see what packages are available.
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> Hey.
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> After getting sick of having to have a browser around to hit
> packages.debian.org, I wrote a python script that handle it for me.
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> This way you can do an 'apt-search bash' and see what packages are available.
If you run apt-get update,
apt-cache search bash
is rather more powerful, since it searches the contents of the description field.
Jules
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