ara

http://ara.edos-project.org/search?p=false&x=false&q=%s&a=Search&m=10&n=true

Search Debian packages using ara. Ara is a utility for doing boolean regexp queries on the the Debian package database.

Display packages whose name or description contains "tetris":
ara tetris

Same, but only at word boundaries:
ara /tetris/iw

Same, but case-sensitive:
ara /tetris/w

Display packages whose name or description contain "php4" AND "apache":
ara php4 apache

Display packages in section "devel" whose name or description contains "php3" or "php4"and "apache":
ara (php3 or php4) apache section=devel

Display packages not in section "devel" whose name or description contains
"php3" or "php4" and "apache":
ara (php3 or php4) apache not section=devel

Same as above. Note parentheses:
ara (not section=devel) (php3 or php4) apache

Same as above. Note that explicit AND operators have lower priority than NOT operators:
ara not section=devel and (php3 or php4) and apache

Display packages in section utils who do not depend on Gtk, Gnome or KDE libraries, and having optional priority, and whose size does not exceed 100,000 bytes:
ara section=utils & (!depends:(gtk|gnome|kde) | size<100000) & priority=optional

Display packages in section games whose description or package fields match either regular expression:
ara section=games (/[^ ]etris/i or /fall.* block/) 


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Old implementation:
http://ara.zapto.org/search?p=false&x=false&q=%s&a=Search&m=10&n=true

196 uses - Created 2005-07-05 12:31:24 - Last used 2023-09-19 00:12:40

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