Você pode usar aptitude ou apt-cache :
$ apt-cache search zend
php5-apcu - APC User Cache for PHP 5
php-horde-cache - Horde Caching API
php-letodms-lucene - Document management system - Fulltext search
zendframework - powerful PHP framework
zendframework-bin - binary scripts for zendframework
zendframework-resources - resource scripts for zendframework
Por padrão, ele pesquisará a descrição de um pacote, para pesquisar somente os nomes de pacotes:
$ apt-cache --names-only search zend
zendframework - powerful PHP framework
zendframework-bin - binary scripts for zendframework
zendframework-resources - resource scripts for zendframework
ou
$ aptitude search zend
p zendframework - powerful PHP framework
p zendframework-bin - binary scripts for zendframework
p zendframework-resources - resource scripts for zendframework
Ambas as ferramentas aceitam expressões regulares como padrões:
$ apt-cache --names-only search "zend*"
dzen2 - General-purpose messaging and notification program for X11
frozen-bubble - cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
frozen-bubble-data - Data files for Frozen-Bubble game
libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl - AuthorizeNet backend for Business::OnlinePayment
libfile-localizenewlines-perl - Perl module to localize the newlines for one or more files
libzen-dev - ZenLib C++ utility library -- development files
libzen-doc - ZenLib C++ utility library -- documentation
libzen0 - ZenLib C++ utility library -- runtime
zenmap - The Network Mapper Front End
octave-zenity - simple graphical user interfaces using zenity in Octave
ruby-zentest - ZenTest provides 4 different tools: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, and multiruby
ttf-wqy-zenhei - "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" A Hei-Ti Style (sans-serif) Chinese font
zendframework - powerful PHP framework
zendframework-bin - binary scripts for zendframework
zendframework-resources - resource scripts for zendframework
zenity - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts
zenity-common - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts (common files)
mate-dialogs-gnome - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts (GNOME files)
$ aptitude search "zend*"
p dzen2 - General-purpose messaging and notification
p dzen2:i386 - General-purpose messaging and notification
p frozen-bubble - cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
p frozen-bubble:i386 - cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
p frozen-bubble-data - Data files for Frozen-Bubble game
p libbusiness-onlinepayment-autho - AuthorizeNet backend for Business::OnlineP
p libfile-localizenewlines-perl - Perl module to localize the newlines for o
p libzen-dev - ZenLib C++ utility library -- development
p libzen-dev:i386 - ZenLib C++ utility library -- development
p libzen-doc - ZenLib C++ utility library -- documentatio
p libzen0 - ZenLib C++ utility library -- runtime
p libzen0:i386 - ZenLib C++ utility library -- runtime
p octave-zenity - simple graphical user interfaces using zen
p ruby-zentest - ZenTest provides 4 different tools: zentes
p ttf-wqy-zenhei - "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" A Hei-Ti Style (sans-s
p zendframework - powerful PHP framework
p zendframework-bin - binary scripts for zendframework
p zendframework-resources - resource scripts for zendframework
i zenity - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell
p zenity:i386 - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell
i zenity-common - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell
p zenmap - The Network Mapper Front End