Hello

I often need to query the repositories to find if a given application is available.

But "apt-file list | grep -i myapp" returns so many hits that it's useless.

For instance, how would I be able to find the name of the OpenSSHd server for Debian, without also getting all the libraries that have "ssh" in them?

Thank you.
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Edit: "apt-cache search myapp" doesn't work either, as "apt-cache search ssh" returned items like "weirdx - X server in Java".

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Edit: This seems to do the job: "apt-cache search ssh | grep ssh"

Try apt-cache search <app> , don't forget to update the list first with apt-get update.

Regards

Or you may prefer the results/layout of:

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will only give packages as result that have NAME in the package name.

For more info on options of apt-cache try

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Thanks for the tips.

While "aptitude search foo" does only return applications that have "foo" in their name, "apt-cache -n search foo" also returns those that have "foo" in the description, eg. "dropbear - lightweight SSH2 server and client".

"foo" means whatever name you want to search for, not "foo", but lets say you want a text editor, so you search for vi or nano or jed and so on.

Regards