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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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