Question

I can’t find the emacs package to install on debian.
I am using apt-cache search [emacs*+] and I get a list of packages which depend on emacs, but not emacs itself.

Any thoughts? I installed the Debian base system only.

Answer 1

First of all [emacs*+] doesn’t make sense. Second, add more apt repositories. Just search for emacs, emacs*+ is equivalent to an apt-cache search with emac.

Mine shows more than 300 entries matching emacs:

 # Correct search
 $ apt-cache search emacs | wc -l
 330

 # Wrong
 $ apt-cache search emacs*+ | wc -l
 333