Debian Package Search is a GUI for searching packages and showing package information. It is aimed to help you search for the packages you need. It should make the task of searching a pleasant experience. Additionally it offers a convenient way to display the information available for a package. Originally I designed it to find a single package where you have a clear imagination of what you want — and it is really good for this ;-). But it can also be used to simply browse the packages available. Perhaps there is something in the database you simply must have.

Debian Package Search provides a single interface for different types of search including a full text search (apt-cache search) and searching by categories (debtags search). Debtags is a new approach for categorizing the Debian packages developed by Enrico Zini (see http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ for more information). Once you have found an interesting package you can install from within the user interface.

For some more information consider taking a look at the program's help page.
Please tell me if you like or dislike the application by voting with either good or bad (this is on www.kde-apps.org).
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Installation

Debian Package Search was accepted into the official Debian unstable, testing and stable release. The easiest way to install the package is simply using apt-get install packagesearch.

If you like to do things manually, download the .deb file from the sourceforge download area and install it via dpkg -i packagesearch_filename.deb or your favourite package manager.

If you want to compile the program from source, download the sources and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

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Note: As the name suggests, this program is useful for Debian (or Debian like) distributions only.

If you have further questions do not hesitate to contact me at bensmail@gmx.net

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