More debian apt-get help

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In a message dated: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:54:21 EST
Jefferson Kirkland said:

>Ok, I am looking to install Gnome after finally getting Xwindows 
>installed.  I did the following:
>
>apt-get update
>apt-cache search 'gnome'  > list

Try:

	$ apt-cache pkgnames task | grep gnome

and 	$ apt-cache pkgnames gnome

The 'task' packages are meta-packages which make it easier to install 
groups of related packages.

HTH,
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