finding fun stuff with apt-get

[hurt]

alright here are some quick tips on having fun with apt-get;

always so a apt-get update before doing these

1. "apt-cache search var" - this will search everything what your enter as var.

2. "apt-cache show package name" - will show info about the package name you enter.

3. "apt-get install package name" - if you want to play with that.

one other thing that gets allot of people allot is that package name is now what you run. so i find if you cant find command to run it, just as root do a "find / -iname some small part of the package name". this will usually give you a good idea of what the command is.
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[tragedy]

what a great tip hehe
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[eccentric]

Just to add a couple of things that are also handy

dpkg -L pacakge name - will list all of the files installed by the package.

dpkg -S file name - will tell you what package a file came from

And to find the file to actually run the installed package just do a grep for /bin on the dpkg -L command like so:

dpkg -L package name | grep "/bin/"

[hurt]