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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:55:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Howto find packages
Message-ID:  <20031018075323.N29978@grond.sourballs.org>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.10.16.17.04.27.929411@gmx.ch>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> But, apt-cache isn't yet finished there. You can also run
>
> apt-cache show gnomeicu
>
> which presents you lots of details about the one package with this name:
[...]
> is there something like that for FreeBSD, too?


pkg_info will provide most, if not all, of that information, provided you
feed it the right command line options.


--
David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com



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