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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by abrowne on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:03PM (#10797975)
Another (fairly) recent improvement for apt, but on the UI side, is the apt command [1]. It "combines the most commonly used commands from apt-get and apt-cache. The commands are the same as their apt-get/apt-cache counterparts but with slightly different configuration options." So no need to remember that it's apt-cache search, and it's a shorter command. (I know you can set aliases, but this works by default, so on a live USB or another user's machine.) Bash completion didn't work at first, at least on Ubuntu, but as of 15.10 it's working.

[1]: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/

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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by mixmastamyk on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:55PM (#10798159)
This does the same I believe, if you'd like to try something like this right now:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apt-wrapper

It also runs sudo for you when needed.

The wrapper part is only for the package name as it was already taken on pypi.

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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by dilap on Sunday December 27, 2015 @02:53PM (#10798532)
this is good! i'm mostly homebrew on mac these days, but every once in a while i find myself on an apt-based linux system, and i've always blown away at how obscure and unintuitive apt is.
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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by Klasiaster on Sunday December 27, 2015 @06:42PM (#10799145)
It's good but does not provide tab-completion on bash yet.
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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by abrowne on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:27PM (#10799707)
It does in Ubuntu starting with 15.10 (as I mentioned). I don't know about Debian.
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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by fistfuck on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:23PM (#10798045)
Ugh can't even count how many times this happens:

Apt search somepackage

sigh

Apt-cache search somepackage

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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by malux85 on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:30PM (#10798073)
then:

sigh

apt-cache search somepackage | grep '^somepackage'

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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by leeoniya on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:36PM (#10798092) 

    apt-cache policy <somepackage>
does that work better?
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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by asjo on Sunday December 27, 2015 @04:58PM (#10798913)
wajig(1) is your unifying interface friend in this space.
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