Aptitude

Recipes for using aptitude on Debian/Ubuntu

show

show Displays detailed information about one or more packages. E.g.

aptitude show bsdgames

gives

Package: bsdgames
State: not installed
Version: 2.17-15
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers 
Uncompressed Size: 2544k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libstdc++6 (>=
         4.2.1-4), wamerican | wordlist
Conflicts: bsdgames-nonfree (< 2.14)
Replaces: bsdgames-nonfree (< 2.14)
Description: a collection of classic textual unix games
 This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for
 decades on unix systems. 
 
 Includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, bcd, boggle, caesar,
 canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse,
 number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt, primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, rot13, sail, snake, tetris,
 trek, wargames, worm, worms, wump, wtf

Unclassified

Try taking a look at apt-cache search and apt-get search

Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 25-Jan-2009
Updated: 14-Mar-2009