Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:09:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the > search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" > appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). > > How does one get s

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Magnus Therning wrote, on 2009-02-06 21:57: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to insta

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-06 11:39 +0100, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the > search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" > appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). You're probably aware that you can use

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search > function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in > lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). > > How does one get some text in

aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). How does one get some text in the search box in aptitude to match the start of line or e