debian help

[Colin Marquardt]

Eric Eisenhart <eric at eisenhart.com> writes:

> However, I find that when using debian, I never manually download .deb
> files...  Much more useful are:
>
> apt-cache search pattern  # multiple if using woody or later
> apt-cache show package-name
> apt-get install package
> apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade

Plus 

  apt-file search <pattern>

which lists the packages providing <pattern>. Not sure if apt-file
was in Potato already, but it is in unstable as an extra package.

Cheers,
  Colin

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