How do I know which package is which?

[David Hart]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:10 +0000, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:

> For example, if I would like to install GNU Plot, how do I know to
> which I need to type when I do "sudo apt-get install <what-to-say>"?

If it's not installed on your system install apt-cache. 'apt-get install
apt-cache'

Then you can do say, 'apt-cache search plot' to find all packages with
plot somewhere in the text description and 'apt-cache show gnuplot' to
show the particular package.  'man apt-cache' for more info.

> Let say, how do I see all of the package lists which can be installed
> by 'apt-get'? I've looked up Synaptic but seems it doesn't say
> everything.

It does show all available packages.  Look at the drop down list
underneath the reload button.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>