>want to install a package >apt search package>50 million matches, most of them are plugins >have absolutely no idea which one actually provides the binary I want>okay maybe apt-file will make this easier to fin? >apt-file search binary-i-want>200 quadrillion matches, 99.999%+ just random unrelated matches>apt-file search -F binary-i-want>0 matches>just open my web browser, navigate to the project's web page and follow the install instructions there please tell me I'm just retarded and that if I was smarter then this would've been easierotherwise what the fuck is the point of having a package manager CLI if I still have to use my web browser to actually find the correct incantation to install the package I want
>>108845349You're retarded for using an apt-based distro.
>>108845873i didn't choose to install debian on all company's servers, anonbut out of curiosity, what package manager would solve my issue?
what was the actual package name?what did you search?apt gives you descriptions, could those have been any use?
iirc apt-file uses regex, so yeah, it's your fault
>>108845349Not a Windows problem, troon
nixos literally has you search in a browser
>>108845950>not a problem on windows>still have to open up a web browser and look up the install instructions for every piece of software you want to install, with the additional step of having to manually fucking extract a fucking archive and run an installation wizardDUMB RETARD>>108845937it was lua package name was lua5.4 I searched for lua there were too many listed matches to read any of those descriptions>>108845943yeah this is true, I did realise that I probably could've found it much easier if I had searched '^lua[0-9]*' instead of just lua so I'd avoid the billion packages that just list the substring lua in their descriptions>>108845993wtf
>>108845349Yeah it's a popular-ish scripting language, these tend to have lakhs of related packages. After 1-2 tries with apt, I probs would have alt-tabbed to Firefox and searched for debian lua.
>>108845349Searching a package like that works very often. Reading the instructions is better 90% of the time because you'd know exactly which packages to install and if the software has some other retarded configuration.No need to get depressed because you googled Lua dummy
>>108845349marriage, hugs, cuddles and a happy married life with Yunyun in the rural side of Konosuba in the crimson demon village.
>>108845911Not him but he'll probably say you shouldn't use a package manage at all.
>>108845349>>108846023With pacman you can find out with this:$ pacman -F usr/bin/luausr/bin/lua is owned by extra/lua 5.4.7-1
$ pacman -F usr/bin/luausr/bin/lua is owned by extra/lua 5.4.7-1
>>108845349>not using grepAmateur.
>>108845911nix
>>108846674>_sampleDo you hate her or something?
>>108846023apt-file find /usr/bin/lua
apt-file find /usr/bin/lua
