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On Sunday, February 7, 2021 4:37 PM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss 
<openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:

> > On 7. Feb 2021, at 09:46, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss 
> > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org wrote:
> > They are Ubuntu packages:
> > gcc libncurses5-dev libtinfo5 libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
> > libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev
> > I searched for packages name using pkg search -rp but it seems I need to 
> > know exact packages name already. It don't list all packages whose names 
> > contain the text like on Q4OS.
>
> man pkg.
>
> pkg search -r libncurses\*
>
> rgds,
> toomas
>
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Thank you. So the asterisk works.

BTW, I use pkg search -rp because -r prints too much information. Of course I 
could pipe it to less but it's still too much of the details. I just want the 
packages name.

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