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GNOME Debian Package Finder: Rough and ready package search for the desktop
09-03-2008 11:00 AM
If you do your Debian package management from the command line, you are probably aware of utilities that search the cache of available programs, such as apt-cache, apt-file, and dpkg. Possibly, too, you have cursed the limited search information available in graphical interfaces like Synaptic, which does not extend much beyond searching for the description, name, versions, and dependencies. Now, the GNOME Debian Package Finder (gpfind) is in the process of bring much of the command-line search capacity to the desktop -- although, at version 0.1.6, it is still too rough to replace its command-line equivalents for most users.



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dd-list

DD-LIST(1)						      General Commands Manual							DD-LIST(1)

NAME

       dd-list - nicely list .deb packages and their maintainers

SYNOPSIS

       dd-list [-hiusV] [--help] [--stdin] [--sources Sources_file] [--dctrl] [--version] [--uploaders] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

       dd-list produces nicely formatted lists of Debian (.deb) packages and their maintainers.

       Input is a list of source or binary package names on the command line (or the standard input if --stdin is given).  Output is a list of the
       following format, where package names are source packages by default:

	      J. Random Developer <jrandom@debian.org>
		     j-random-package
		     j-random-other

	      Diana Hacker <diana@example.org>
		     fun-package
		     more-fun-package

       This is useful when you want, for example, to produce a list of packages that need to attention from their maintainers, e.g., to be rebuilt
       when a library version transition happens.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Print brief help message.

       -i, --stdin
	      Read package names from the standard input, instead of taking them from the command line. Package names are whitespace delimited.

       -d, --dctrl
	      Read  package  list  from standard input in the format of a Debian package control file. This includes the status file, or output of
	      apt-cache. This is the fastest way to use dd-list, as it uses the maintainer information from the input instead of  looking  up  the
	      maintainer of each listed package.

	      If no Source: line is given, the Package: name is used for output, which might be a binary package name.

       -s, --sources Sources_file
	      Read package information from the specified Sources_files.  This can be given multiple times.

	      If no Sources_files are specified, any files matching /var/lib/apt/lists/*_source_Sources will be used.

       -u, --uploaders
	      Also  list  developers  who  are named as uploaders of packages, not only the maintainers; this is the default behaviour, use --nou-
	      ploaders to prevent it. Uploaders are indicated with "(U)" appended to the package name.

       -nou, --nouploaders
	      Only list package Maintainers, do not list Uploaders.

       -b, --print-binary
	      Use binary package names in the output instead of source package names (has no effect with --dctrl if  the  Package:  line  contains
	      source package names).

       -V, --version
	      Print the version.

AUTHOR

       Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

Debian								    2011-10-27								DD-LIST(1)