19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
8:35 a.m.
On 18/02/13 10:42, david wrote:
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.
Simon