kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:

>     $ apt-get install apt-cache
>     $ man apt-cache
>     $ apt-cache search foo

The first step should yield an error messages -- it isn't necessary,
because apt-cache is part of the apt package (dpkg -S apt-cache).

In addition, one could mention `apt-cache show foo', which shows the
details of a package found with `apt-cache search'.

Greetings,
joachim

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