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Naming conventions

Naming conventions

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:01 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator by rahvin
Parent article: wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator

Hah! Try apt-cache searching for "R" (the math/statistics package)

(Debian calls it r-core, but you have to know that in order to know it.)


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Naming conventions

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:02 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I even got it wrong. It's r-base :(

Naming conventions

Posted Sep 27, 2012 20:03 UTC (Thu) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link]

apt-cache search --names-only '^r-' is a bit better but you have to know about the hyphen in package names.

Naming conventions

Posted Oct 3, 2012 18:45 UTC (Wed) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

'axi-cache search r' works a lot better.

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