Most use

apt-cache search someexpression

I am strange and like 

apt-cache pkgnames | grep someexpression


Some other commands for cache:

 add - Add an package file to the source cache
 gencaches - Build both the package and source cache
 showpkg - Show some general information for a single package
 stats - Show some basic statistics dump - Show the entire file in a terse
form
 dumpavail - Print an available file to stdout unmet - Show unmet
dependencies
 check - Check the cache a bit
 search - Search the package list for a regex pattern
 show - Show a readable record for the package
 depends - Show raw dependency information for a package
 pkgnames - List the names of all packages
 dotty - Generate package graphs for GraphVis

Derek

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Chris Cowan wrote:

> How do you get a listing of the available packages from apt-get? aka after
> you update the list how can you see what's available to install?
> 
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> Chris
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