How do I know which package is which?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

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>"?

You can do that with apt-cache search, or synaptics search function

> 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.

gnuplot is in universe, do you have universe enabled?

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Dennis K.