How to avoid Rust spam in package searches?

lambalicious · 12 天前

How to avoid Rust spam in package searches?

Salsa5924@lemmy.world · 12 天前

Apt search support regex

search (apt-cache(8)) search can be used to search for the given regex(7) term(s) in the list of available packages and display matches. This can e.g. be useful if you are looking for packages having a specific feature. If you are looking for a package including a specific file try apt-file(1).

Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 天前

Just to add to your answer, regular apt search will find all search keywords in the package name and description so OP may still have a ton of output in the search results. It may be helpful to narrow down the search to just the package name e.g.

apt search --names-only blahblah

It still accepts regex so something like

apt search --names-only ^blahblah

would find all packages with names beginning with “blahblah”. The ^ regex specifies the beginning of the word being searched rather than searching anywhere within the package name (for the ppl not too versed in regex syntax).

One thing that confused me, the manpage for apt on my Debian system doesn’t even mention “–names-only” so I’m not sure where that’s documented officially… I found it online and discovered it works in Debian Trixie.

lambalicious · 11 天前

Hmm sounds interesting but a pita to do it every time. Is there any way to record a default search filter for apt? Or would I need to overwrite apt command with alias (and what do I do about aptitude, in that case)