On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 19:51 +0200, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 07:50 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > […]
> >> apt-cache search libcurl | grep dev
> >
> > aptitude search libcurl.*dev
> >
> > surely. :-)
> 
> to be honest, most of the time I would just write "apt-get 
> install licurl" and then look through the rest using tab 
> completion. Doesn't work for more complex cases, but it's often 
> enough.

But libcurl and libcurl-dev are likely different packages. Also apt-get
really is not as good as aptitude. And aptitude is way better than any
of the fancy graphics UI abominations. One up for ncurses and properly
managed dependencies so as to get automated removal.
-- 
Russel.
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