[nmglug] Learning about options for installing programs, help please

[Don Crowder]

Arkana,good info.   I should hang out with you more.  :)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:24 PM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> Don Crowder writes:
> > Semantics can be an obstacle. I opened Synaptic after reading your post
> and
> > searched for "clip art".  I got a lot of results, none of which appeared
> to
> > be clip art but when I tried again, searching instead for "clipart", I
> got
> > specific and usable results.  When I'm looking for an application for a
> > specific purpose I don't normally begin with Synaptic.  I begin with
> > google. Of course if you google "free clipart for LibreOffice" you'll
> need
>
> Being a command-line girl, I like using grep to winnow down search
> choices. I find it a lot faster than typing lots of repeated
> patterns into Google or Synaptic.
>
> You can search with either apt-cache search or aptitude search;
> I prefer aptitude. If you want something that includes both "clip"
> and "art" but you're not sure whether it's clipart, clip art,
> clip-art or what, you could do this:
>
> $ aptitude search clip | grep art
> p  openclipart - Open Clip Art Library
> p  openclipart-libreoffice - clip art for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice
> gallery
> p  openclipart-png - clip art in PNG format
> p  openclipart-svg - clip art in SVG format
>
> The letter at the beginning of the line indicates whether it's
> installed or not. If it was installed it would say "i"; anything
> else means it's not installed or partially installed (details are in
> man aptitude, but I never remember, so I just look for i or not-i).
>
>         ...Akkana
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