On 2009-12-30 03:32 (-0600), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I started using aptitude after upgrading from Etch to Lenny. I now use > it exclusively instead of apt-*. It's much more powerful and user > friendly, and the package search function returns more relevant and > limited results. For instance > > :/$ aptitude search postf > :/$ apt-cache search postf > > aptitude only returns packages whose name contains "postf"
Obviously the relevance depends on your search terms - and aptitude has more advanced search engine. For example, with aptitude search '~dpostf' aptitude search '?description(postf)' you can search regexp "postf" from packages' descriptions. With aptitude search '~Pmail-transport-agent' aptitude search '?provides(mail-transport-agent)' you can list packages which "Provides" meta package mail-transport-agent. See "Table 2.1" in /usr/share/aptitude/README file. -- Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'll notice them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org