Arkana,good info. I should hang out with you more. :) On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:24 PM Akkana Peck <akkana@shallowsky.com> wrote:
Don Crowder writes:
Semantics can be an obstacle. I opened Synaptic after reading your post and searched for "clip art". I got a lot of results, none of which appeared to be clip art but when I tried again, searching instead for "clipart", I got specific and usable results. When I'm looking for an application for a specific purpose I don't normally begin with Synaptic. I begin with google. Of course if you google "free clipart for LibreOffice" you'll need
Being a command-line girl, I like using grep to winnow down search choices. I find it a lot faster than typing lots of repeated patterns into Google or Synaptic.
You can search with either apt-cache search or aptitude search; I prefer aptitude. If you want something that includes both "clip" and "art" but you're not sure whether it's clipart, clip art, clip-art or what, you could do this:
$ aptitude search clip | grep art p openclipart - Open Clip Art Library p openclipart-libreoffice - clip art for OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice gallery p openclipart-png - clip art in PNG format p openclipart-svg - clip art in SVG format
The letter at the beginning of the line indicates whether it's installed or not. If it was installed it would say "i"; anything else means it's not installed or partially installed (details are in man aptitude, but I never remember, so I just look for i or not-i).
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