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Searching for a package

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- [Instructor] An installation of Linux comes with a lot of useful tools, but it's very common to need to install something else in order to enable different functionality or to add features we need. Two primary ways of doing this are downloading a package from a project or maintainer's site, and using the search capacity of the package manager to go look in software repositories. Let's use the apt software to search for a package. To do that, I can write apt, search, followed by a package name or some text that I want to search for if I don't know the particular package name. For now, let's look for the text editor nano. It's already installed on my system but we can still look for the package. And I can see this returns quite a bit of information, much more than just packages with a matching name or even a matching one liner summary as you can see here. Apt search searches the whole package description, so if the string nano appears anywhere in the text that describes a package, for…

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