On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: > > > I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of > > package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? > > ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when > > I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this > > time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). > > That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be
mount sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /mnt grep whatever /mnt/public/pub/unix/Linux/debian/dists/hamm/main/Packages | less This will pick up descriptions as well as package names. (you probably should check contrib and non-free as well) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/