Searching for the repository name locally in Ubuntu

It’s difficult to remember the required repository names for various applications in Ubuntu. We can search from the cache generated after an aptget update for this. The usage is:

apt-cache search [search term(s)]

Here’s an example:

apt-cache search python game binding

The above code will search for the terms ‘python’, ‘game’ and ‘binding’ in the repository name and shortdescription strings, and suggest various repos. You can install the required one by using the ‘sudo aptget install [name]’ command. —Sricharan Chiruvolu, sricharanized@gmail.com