Regarding apt and synaptic

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 15:04, Vikram Goyal wrote:
>
> Or even when one needs to know visually what extra packs are available
> with some pack info, so that one may install it. For yum there's yumex
> but I haven't found it to be at par with its predecessor.
>
I find 'yum search xyz' to be invaluable.  It searches description as well as 
package name, so you get to see anything that is, for instance, a plugin for 
the specified term.  IMO it's much better than yumex, and on a different 
time-scale.

Anne
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