Re: [LAU] Audio distros

On 02/18/2013 09:35 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
> On 18/02/13 10:42, david wrote:
>> On 02/16/2013 10:01 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
>>> On 17/02/13 14:56, david wrote:
>>>
>>> but using apt-get and command line a couple of other packages are very
>>> useful as well ...
>>>
>>> apt-show-versions -R jack
>>> this will look for packages available in the repos by part of a name,
>>> using a regex .. ok so the -R is a little cryptic, but if you prefer use
>>> --regex or --regex-all
>>>
>
>> Thanks. FWIW, anything involving regex is cryptic. ;-)
>
> then just use -R ... meaning search ... no need to get fancy with regex
> unless you want to ... "jack" just searches for anything including "jack".
>
> But really ... type a line, click a menu whatever is familiar is often
> easiest.

Or alt-menu shortcut key. ;-)

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