[geeks] UNIX-like OS for a laptop [solved, for now, I think]

[Chad McAuley]

On 7/9/07, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at tandem.artell.net> wrote:
>
> Anyone know where they keep the list of installable package names?
> "postfix" I could guess, but stuff like "netkit-inet" is pretty hard to
> figure out from scratch.
>
> -Shel

http://packages.ubuntu.com is where I usually go if I know the name of
the piece of software but not what the Ubuntu package is called.
'apt-cache search foo' searches the full package description for a
regex and spits back a list of package names and short descriptions.
the --names-only flag just searches package names, and the --full flag
gives you the full details for each package, including dependencies
and such.

Also, if you know the name of a specific binary, try just typing that
into the terminal.  I don't know if the server includes this, but in
the normal desktop installs I can type in, say, 'sendmail', and it
will spit back a list of packages that provide a sendmail binary.