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Aptitude Search

The basic search is:

aptitude search apache

Returns all packages that match

To search only for the installed versions

aptitude search ~iapache

To search for the packages that aren't installed

aptitude search \!\(~i\)apache2

Search Term reference

http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html

Written on 28th of May 2008

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