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On 2013.04.21 22:57, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have 
> to, and can somehow work out the name of the package.
I haven't worked with Ubuntu or apt-based packaging in ages, but isn't this kind of information in a description message or something
(especially in a GUI frontend)?

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