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Can I install different language packages for the command line program “info”?
I'd like to install info pages for the command line program in spanish so it will take less time for me to understand and assimilate.
Well, it may sound quite dumb, but the problem I'm having trying ...
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Get package description using apt
How do I get the prosaic description of a package using apt? I tried both apt-cache show and apt-cache showpkg but no luck.
Using synaptic it's easy as typing the package name and the description is ...
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Recovering package metadata info
From the console, is there a way to recover the architecture of a package when it is not currently installed ? I know the name and version of the package.
