19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
8:18 p.m.
On 02/18/2013 09:35 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
On 18/02/13 10:42, david wrote:
Or alt-menu shortcut key. ;-)
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On 02/16/2013 10:01 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
> On 17/02/13 14:56, david wrote:
>
> 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
>
Thanks. FWIW, anything involving regex is
cryptic. ;-)
then just use -R ... meaning search ... no need to get fancy with regex
unless you want to ... "jack" just searches for anything including
"jack".
But really ... type a line, click a menu whatever is familiar is often
easiest.