In this lesson, we are going to learn about how to search for packages and install them.
So in case you do not know a package name, but you wish to install a package which should do a desired
task for you.
Let's say you want to run FTP and you need a package which is a G for FTP client, which is a graphical
user interface client to connect securely to a FTP server.
But you are not aware about the name of the program.
With the help of App Search, you will be able to search all the programs that allows you to do a specific
task based on a description.
Here is a graphical user interface or GI ftp.
After you have got a list of packages which are matching with your description, you can get more information
about them by running the command apt show.
So it's a practical time and let's see how you can use this command to search for packages.
I'm onto my terminal right now.
Here, I want to install a program, but I don't know the name, so I'm going to search for something
which is graphical ftp using the command app to search.
Here you can see these are the matching results with the description file zilla.
F tools.
F, e, and so on.
So I know.
Okay.
File.
Utilize the tool that helps me connect to FTP with the help of GUI.
Now I'm going to see more information about this tool using the command app show file zilla.
You can replace file zilla with any package name that you want here.
You could be able to see the package name, version.
The file size, the recommendations, etc. And this way you will get all the information that about
a package that needs to be installed.
I hope you guys understood.
Thank you.