Re: [LAU] Audio distros

On 17/02/13 14:56, david wrote: 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.