How to search for packages with apt-get?

[conholster]

On arch linux I'd do pacman -Ss name_of_package and it would show me what packages matched that string. How do I do that with apt-get, if possible?

For example:

pacman -Ss xine
libxine-xyz
xinegui-xzy
xinerama

and so forth

[arochester]

Re: How to search for packages with apt-get?

Have a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75655

[Rog131]

Re: How to search for packages with apt-get?

man apt-cache

APT-CACHE
Section: (8)

NAME
apt-cache - APT package handling utility -- cache manipulator

SYNOPSIS
apt-cache [-hvsn] [-o=config string] [-c=file] {[add file...] | [gencaches] | [showpkg pkg...] | [showsrc pkg...] | [stats] | [dump] | [dumpavail] | [unmet] | [search regex] | [show pkg...] | [depends pkg...] | [rdepends pkg...] | [pkgnames prefix] | [dotty pkg...] | [policy pkgs...] | [madison pkgs...]}

DESCRIPTION


apt-cache
performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package metadata.

...
search regex [ regex ... ]
search performs a full text search on all available package lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out the package name and the short description. If --full is given then output identical to show is produced for each matched package, and if --names-only is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is.

Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that are and'ed together.

=>

apt-cache search xine

More > FAQ: Package Managers

[conholster]

Re: How to search for packages with apt-get?

Thanks alot