Hi shirish, shirish शिरीष wrote: > As shared above, aptitude search gives far less results than > apt-cache search.
Yes. It does so for ages. > For instance - > > [$] aptitude search marathi > > p task-marathi - > Marathi environment > p task-marathi-desktop - > Marathi desktop > > Now let's try the same using either apt-cache or axi-cache > > [$] apt-cache search marathi > [0:07:03] > aspell-mr - Marathi (mr) dictionary for GNU aspell > festival-mr - festival text to speech synthesizer for Marathi language [...] "apt-cache search" by default searches package name _and_ description. "aptitude search" by default searches only in packages names -- which also can be seen nicely in your examples. See the documentation at e.g. http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchTermReferenceList If you want the same result as with apt-cache use e.g. this command: → aptitude search "~dmarathi" "~nmarathi" p aspell-mr - Marathi (mr) dictionary for GNU aspell p festival-mr - festival text to speech synthesizer for Marathi language p festvox-mr-nsk - Marathi male speaker for festival p firefox-esr-l10n-mr - Marathi language package for Firefox ESR p firefox-l10n-mr - Marathi language package for Firefox p fonts-deva-extra - Free fonts for Devanagari script p fonts-gargi - OpenType Devanagari font p fonts-lohit-deva - Lohit TrueType font for Devanagari script p fonts-nakula - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font p fonts-sahadeva - Free Unicode compliant Devanagari font p fonts-samyak-deva - Samyak TrueType font for Devanagari script p fonts-sarai - truetype font for devanagari script p gcompris-sound-mr - Indian Marathi sound files for GCompris p hyphen-mr - Marathi hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice p iceweasel-l10n-mr - Marathi language package for Iceweasel - Transitional package p iok - Indic Onscreen Keyboard p iok:i386 - Indic Onscreen Keyboard p kde-l10n-mr - Marathi (mr) localization files for KDE p libreoffice-l10n-mr - office productivity suite -- Marathi language package p task-marathi - Marathi environment p task-marathi-desktop - Marathi desktop p tesseract-ocr-mar - tesseract-ocr language files for Marathi In the opposite direction, you'll get the same result as "aptitude search" with "apt-cache search -n": → apt-cache search -n marathi task-marathi - Marathi environment task-marathi-desktop - Marathi desktop So unless you want to change aptitude's default, I don't see any bug here and would like to close this bug report again. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE