[Tfug] Need battery monitor for X

[Ammon Lauritzen]

I've long since completely given up on searching for packages directly via
apt*. Since both Debian and Ubuntu have great search interfaces on their web
site (something most rpm distros could learn a thing or two from), I tend to
just use that.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Claude Rubinson <cjr at grundrisse.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:02:58AM -0700, earljviolet at deserthowler.comwrote:
> > This is what I needed.  Am now wondering why it didn't show up in
> Synaptic
> > until I got a name for it.  OH, well.
>
> Admittedly, it's been ages since I used Synaptic but last I saw, its
> search capabilities were extremely limited.  Better to use aptitude or
> apt-cache.  By default, aptitude only searches package names while
> apt-cache also searches the package descriptions.  Aptitude's
> searching capabilities are very sophisticated (and a bit confusing);
> see the full user manual (not just the man page) for details.
>
> For comparison:
>
> cjr at wagner:~$ aptitude search battery|wc -l
> 3
> cjr at wagner:~$ apt-cache search battery|wc -l
> 62
> cjr at wagner:~$ aptitude search ~dbattery|wc -l
> 62
>
>
> Claude
>
>
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Ammon Lauritzen
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