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Aptitude Search

By sean

Created 05/28/2008 - 13:01

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

Source URL: http://www.practicalweb.co.uk/blog/08/05/28/aptitude-search

Links:
[1] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html