There a a myriad of unofficial sources, each meeting a particular need (specifically configured or recompiled applications, for instance). The site offers a classic, but configurable, package recovery system (Debian sources):įor various reasons, it may be useful (or necessary) to install "unofficial" Debian packages, not provided in the official Debian sources. It does not, however, retain packages that have been removed for licensing issues. This site covers all Debian packages, including those which have been removed from Debian due to excessive bugs, security problems, etc. The Debian site has had a built in search engine for some time.Ī package that has been removed from Debianįor various reasons, a package may be removed from Debian and no longer be easily accessible. To search for a package in a specific distribution, such as the current Stable, named "squeeze", try % /msg dpkg !find toto squeeze This will basically provide the same information as apt-cache search.Ĭonnect to the irc server at, join channel #debian (or the alternative secondary channel on ), then: (with "toto" as the name of the package or file): % /msg dpkg !find toto toto is in package: Clearly, if you wanted to see such information for, say, emacs, you would use: apt-cache show emacsĪnother option is to use aptitude search. This will provide a more complete description of the package named "packagename". To learn more about a listed package use: apt-cache show packagename If you wish to search only for those packages with the search expression in the name, add the option -names-only: apt-cache search -names-only emacs This will post the names of all packages containing the expression "emacs" in the name or description. The most current usage is to use the "search" option with a rational expression as a parameter. Use apt-cache (available since Debian 2.2)Īpt-cache allows searching rapidly among the entire list of available Debian packages. For more information, see man dlocateįind an official package (installed or not)ġ. This program does, more or less, the same thing as dpkg, but it does it even quicker. Or, like this, with grep: dpkg -l | grep toto It is often preferable to generalize, and search for all packages with "toto" in their name: dpkg -l '''toto''' To search for the package "toto": dpkg -l toto
To search for an installed package including the file "toto": dpkg -S toto Translation(s): English - Français - Português (Brasil)
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