• What's new

  • [2007/04/26] 0.2 released
  • [2005/12/21] 0.1 released
• Abstract
• Environment
• Install
• Examples
• License

Title: apt-sary: fast apt-cache / apt-file search

1 What's new

1.1 [2007/04/26] 0.2 released

Small bug fix

1.2 [2005/12/21] 0.1 released

Initial release

2 Abstract

Sary makes `apt-cache search' and `apt-file search' MUCH FASTER. Using apt-sary is very easy! Only replace `apt-' with `apt-sary-'.

But .ary files generated by mksary eats much disk space.

3 Environment

• Apt (Debian GNU/Linux)

4 Install

Please execute the following commands.

apt-get install rake sary apt apt-file
ruby -ropen-uri -e 'URI("http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/archive/apt-sary-0.2.tar.gz").read.display' > apt-sary-0.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf apt-sary-0.2.tar.gz

When you failed, please download it from the next link.

• apt-sary-0.2.tar.gz

Then, install it.

ruby setup.rb
apt-sary-mksary

5 Examples

apt-sary-cache search dpkg-reconfigure

speeds up

apt-cache search dpkg-reconfigure


apt-sary-file search dpkg-reconfigure

speeds up

apt-file search dpkg-reconfigure

6 License

GPL