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What is a Debian preinst, postinst, prerm, and postrm script? 7.7. Why are Debian package file names so long? 7.4. What is the format of a Debian binary package? 7.3.

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Using these commands, as well as grep, you should be able to quickly find the packages you need, and even have the commands to script out this functionality in the future if needed. This included using the apt search command and its close cousin apt-cache search. In this guide, we saw how to search for packages in apt package manager. Once you’ve identified the package you want to grab, you can download and install it with the usual apt install command. This will show a list of packages that begin with the text “apache2”. Here’s an example where we search for packages with apache2 in the name.

If you’d like to search just the names of packages, you can use the following synax.

This is the preferred method if you were trying to script this task.

The apt-cache search command is very similar, but will format the output differently.

$ apt search package-name | grep specific-name

If you get a ton of results, you could always use grep to narrow the search further, or pipe to less or more so your terminal doesn’t get flooded with output.

This will look for any packages related to your search query, not just packages that contain the specific phrase in their name. The simplest way to search for a package is with the following syntax.

Debian package search