Searching and installing package in Ubuntu

Searching and installing package in Ubuntu

If you are using terminal in ubuntu or command line interface and want to install software but you forgot

the name of package. following is the very useful command that will search all package for you.

command is:-

apt-cache search SearchTerm

example you want  packet  libmp3lame-devel  and only remember lame the following command will search
package you want.

 apt-cache search lame

libcarp-clan-perl - Perl enhancement to Carp error logging facilities
libgnome2-canvas-perl - Perl interface to the GNOME canvas library
libgnome2-perl - Perl interface to the GNOME libraries
libgnome2-vfs-perl - Perl interface to the 2.x series of the GNOME VFS library
libgtk2-perl - Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library
libgtk2-perl-doc - Perl interface to the Gtk 2.x series (documentation files)
libpango-perl - Perl module to layout and render international text
abuse - SDL port of the Abuse action game
audex - Audio grabber tool for KDE
caca-utils - text mode graphics utilities
cmt - a collection of LADSPA plugins
cpufire-applet - GNOME panel applet showing the CPU load as a fire
electricsheep - screensaver showing collective dream of sleeping computers
flam3 - render and animate FLAM3s and manipulate their genomes
flamerobin - graphical database administration tool for Firebird DBMS
flamethrower - Multicast file distribution utility
glame - versatile audio processor
hardware-monitor - Monitor applet for the Gnome panel
lame - An MP3 encoding library (frontend)
lame-doc - An MP3 encoding library (documentation)
libavifile-0.7c2 - shared libraries for AVI read/writing
libgnome2-gconf-perl - Perl interface to the GNOME GConf library
libgnome2-wnck-perl - Perl interface to the Window Navigator Construction Kit
libgstreamer-interfaces-perl - Perl interface to the GStreamer Interfaces library
libgstreamer-perl - Perl interface to the GStreamer media processing framework
libgtk2-gladexml-perl - Perl interface to use user interfaces created with glade-2
libgtk2-trayicon-perl - Perl interface to fill the system tray
libgtk2-traymanager-perl - Perl interface to fill the system tray
libmp3lame-dev - An MP3 encoding library (development)
libmp3lame0 - An MP3 encoding library



Now you know the name of package and want to install now

apt-get install libmp3lame-dev

that's it.