Ubuntu not showing long descriptions

[Tony Baechler]

Yes, on Debian it shows me the full package descriptions as well, but not on
Ubuntu.  See below:

Script started on Thu 31 Jul 2014 09:23:25 PM PDT
tony at ns1:~$ aptitude -q show wget
Package: wget
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.15-1ubuntu1
Priority: standard
Section: web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 651 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libidn11 (>= 1.13), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libuuid1
         (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Conflicts: wget-ssl, wget-ssl, wget
Provides: wget
Provided by: wget
Description: retrieves files from the web

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

tony at ns1:~$ apt-cache -q show ylynx
Package: lynx
Priority: extra
Section: web
Installed-Size: 42
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: lynx-cur
Version: 2.8.8pre4-1
Depends: lynx-cur (>= 2.8.8pre4-1)
Filename: pool/main/l/lynx-cur/lynx_2.8.8pre4-1_all.deb
Size: 4184
MD5sum: 4a6f06434ecc9ae8d2545447b44d749e
SHA1: 6c880a88bdb14cb73c8542121d18f4987af59833
SHA256: e2b1581ddfdc22667651520622bc3d7adf0c90f71557703db161b63773f186c0
Description: Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package)
Description-md5: 97e502859f1b830fc1dd337e582aed20
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m

tony at ns1:~$ exit

Script done on Thu 31 Jul 2014 09:25:00 PM PDT


On 2014-07-30 10:07 PM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> $ apt-cache show <package>
> 
> The above command gives me the full package description.
> I'm running Debian.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tony Baechler
> Sent: 31. juli 2014 06:12
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Ubuntu not showing long descriptions
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a really stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer,
> even after reading man pages and doing Google searches.  How do I get
> Aptitude and apt-cache to show the full package descriptions in Ubuntu
> 14.04?  For some reason, it only gives me a single line package description
> no matter what package I look at.  I manually looked at the package lists
> and they only have a short description as well, so obviously the full
> description isn't being downloaded.  How can I fix this?  Thanks for any
> help.  It's driving me nuts because I can't figure out what a package does
> until I install it.
> 
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