Re: for those new to debian systems

[Aldo <blinuxman tuxfamily org>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:29:18AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Try a couple commands like: which apt-cache.  If that comes back with a 
> file name, you can do apt-cache search "search string" and find what 
> packages might do that.  I like apt-cache search "search string" | less 
> though better.  less is a output pager quite useful to have on systems 
> too.

Maybe a good extra command is apt-cache show appname  like in
apt-cache show lynx
With the search param you can't see details, while show shows details,
author, dependences, conflicts, suggested extra packages, and recommended
extras, very useful IMHO.

Aldo.