The number of results returned by the search is really large, and depending on the term to search for, it will be greater or less. In this way, we can easily and quickly search for all the packages related to FTP, and later decide which ones we want to install, in this list we see both the name of the package and the brief description: The result of this command makes us see a complete list of all the packages that have the word “ftp” in their name, also including the description of the package itself.

In order to use this command, we simply have to open the terminal, and put the following command:įor example, if we want to search for all the packages that contain the word “ftp”, that is, the popular file transfer protocol, then we will put the following order: This tool runs through the console, it does not have any type of graphical user interface, however, it allows us to locate the different packages very quickly based on the keywords that we put. Search for packages (programs)Īlthough there are several basic and easy ways to locate packages in the repositories of this Linux-based distribution, it is best to use the “apt-cache” tool. Sudo apt install filezilla chromium programa3 programa3Īs you have seen, installing programs for which we know their package name is really easy, the complicated thing comes if we have to search for a package in question, because we must indicate the exact name of the program. If you are interested in installing several packages simultaneously, you can put the different programs all in a row, without commas or anything, just a space between each program to install, it would look like this:

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