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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
No, I haven't, because no pointers in the documentation or any Google search turned up this pearl (or I was too stupid to see it). It's looking very helpful though (although a bit too late for me).
When in doubt, I enable all repositories, update, and do a

Code:
apt-cache search <blah, blah, blah>
These are some of my favorites:

Code:
apt-cache search mafw
apt-cache search rtcom
apt-cache search gles
apt-cache search tele
apt-cache search mafw | grep "\-dev"
apt-cache search rtcom | grep "\-dev"
apt-cache search tele | grep "\-dev"
I'm also a huge fan of:

Code:
dpkg -l | grep -i "<blah, blah, blah>"
and

Code:
dpkg -L <package name>
dpkg -e <deb file>
dpkg -x <deb file> .
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