Thanks B.R. Stephen L
>________________________________ > From: Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> >To: Stephen Liu <[email protected]> >Cc: Charles Russell <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 10:44 AM >Subject: Re: how to install metapackages > >heh... damn me and the old dselect dpkg frontend, which I >installed a while ago solely for -l ;) so, try > >apt-cache search --names-only '^science-*' > >;) > >On Sun, 08 Jan 2012, Stephen Liu wrote: > >> Hi, >> I couldn't find them with dpkg >> $ dpkg -l science\* >> No packages found matching science*. >> $ dpkg -l 'science*' >> No packages found matching science*. >> $ dpkg -l 'science-*' >> No packages found matching science-*. >> However I found them with; >> $ apt-cache policy science* >> B.R. >> SL >-- >=------------------------------------------------------------------= >Keep in touch www.onerussian.com >Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic > > >
