Ubuntu not showing long descriptions

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:11:40PM EST, Tony Baechler wrote:
> 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

Make sure you have command-not-found and command-not-found-data installed. Ubuntu has modified apt so that it will only show the long description if it has a localized string, and command-not-found ships this data, at least from a quick look around my system.

Luke