[LAU] Audio distros

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Feb 18 02:42:04 UTC 2013


On 02/16/2013 10:01 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
> On 17/02/13 14:56, david wrote:
>
>> OK. How can I use apt-get to tell me exactly what "pkgname" is when I
>> don't know
>> what the package is named? Or grab a package's changelog?
>>
>
> apt-get changelog puredata
>    that downloads and displays the changelog of the current installable
> version
>
> apt-cache search jack audio
>   ... it lists packages by searching the short descriptions
>
> apt-cache rdepends puredata   or apt-cache depends jack
>    depending on what you are after these can be useful as well
>
>
>
> but using apt-get and command line a couple of other packages are very
> useful as well ...
>
> apt-show-versions -R jack
>    this will look for packages available in the repos by part of a name,
> using a regex .. ok so the -R is a little cryptic, but if you prefer use
> --regex or --regex-all
>
> apt-file search bin/axi-cache
>    this one lets you find what packages any file available in any of
> your repositories is in (it uses a local index), so if you are looking
> for a particular file use that. axi-cache is a xapian index for some of
> this stuff.
>   It will also list the files in a package.

Thanks. FWIW, anything involving regex is cryptic. ;-)

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