On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:07:38 +1000
"ramon buckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi peoples,
> 
> Is there a way ( and I assume so. ) to browse the list of
> the available packages in Debian (from the /var/lib/dpkg/available)
> 
> Without doing my current method of 'less /var/lib/dpkg/available' :-)
> 
> I thinking of maybe a search/query tool in maybe console and or X
> format.

apt-cache search XXXXX

Where XXXX is a keyword.

Erik
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