[Lancaster] Re: debian woody (is:) ) sound.

[Richard Robinson]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Rupert Levene wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:39:47PM +0100, Ken Hough wrote:
> > I couldn't discover any way to use 'aptitude' to scan the contents of 
> > the CD archive for specific items (as I can with YAST -- even using wild 
> > cards) so it was a pain to search manually. I must be missing something 
> > here.
> 
> You can search for packages in aptitude by hitting "/" as mentioned in
> the help (hit "?"). More details (regexp searches) in
> 
>   /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
> 
> All the packages on the cd should be shown in aptitude. You can use
> apt-cdrom(8) to add the contents of new cds if not.
> 
> > Anyway, I could not find the likes of 'kmix' or 'kscd' or any
> > command line equivalents and so could not use the sound card. I
> > tried via 'gnome', but neither the mixer nor the CD player applets
> > worked.
> 
> try 
> 
>   apt-cache search mixer
> 
> or search for the specific file on packages.debian.org -- in this case, 
> 
>   apt-cache search kmix
>   apt-cache search kscd
> 
> turn up hopeful looking candidates to me. use 
> 
>   apt-cache show <packagename>
> 
> to see what the hits are.


or 
apt-cache search --full <whatever>


-- 
Richard Robinson
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