Synaptic search: match all terms?
Synaptic only does a "match any word" type of search,
E.g. I try looking up "post-it" or post-it but so in effect I can only search for "postit" (one word) I'm using Ubuntu (actually Crunchbang) 8.10, but expect to be switching to Mandriva or Fedora in the next month or two. |
I think that using 'apt-cache search' from the command line may be much more powerful* since you can use regular expressions and do things like pipe the output to grep.
Evo2. * Disclaimer: perhaps it is also possible to use regular expressions in synaptic, but since I don't use it couldn't say. |
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sudo apt-cache search "post it" Thanks |
As far as I know your syntax should work. Exactly which package are you expecting "post it" to match with in the search?
Evo2. Ps. No need to use sudo with apt-cache. |
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