Jacob Meuser wrote:
> Sure, but I do 'man -k <whatever>' first, because if it's installed,
> then I don't care about installing it.  There may also be pointers
> from the output of 'man -k' ... from default "this is part of
> so-and-so OS" stuff.

Quite so.  My 1st post on this suggested 'apt-cache search ...' as 
somthing to do in addition to your suggestion of 'man -k ...'

Mark Bigler wrote:
> Try these as well:
>
>  apt-cache search bug | grep -i debian
>  apt-cache search bug | grep -i report

BTW, I was forgetting that apt-cache will 'and' together the arguments 
to search, so:

  apt-cache search bug debian
  apt-cache search bug report

would work just fine.
_______________________________________________
Eug-LUG mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Reply via email to