[LAU] Audio distros

Simon Wise simonzwise at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 07:35:24 UTC 2013


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


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