Please forgive the stupidity of this question as I am a Linux/Ubuntu noob.
I came across the apt-cache search command in another question while searching for ways to get the LaTeX href package to work on my virtual Ubuntu machine.
I then tried apt-cache search href and got the following output:
libio-dirent-perl - Perl module for accessing dirent structs returned by readdir
libclass-std-storable-perl - Support for creating serializable "inside-out" classes
libconfig-inihash-perl - Perl extension for reading and writing INI files
libdata-dumper-compact-perl - vertically compact width-limited data formatter
libdbix-abstract-perl - DBI SQL abstraction
libdigest-md5-file-perl - Perl extension for getting MD5 sums for files and urls
libhtml-html5-outline-perl - implementation of the HTML5 Outline algorithm
libhtml-microformats-perl - parse microformats in HTML
libjs-autolink - JavaScript methods converting text to links
libjson-hyper-perl - extract links from JSON via a schema
libjson-path-perl - search nested hashref/arrayref structures using JSONPath
libmoosex-arrayref-perl - blessed arrayrefs with Moose
libmoosex-oneargnew-perl - Moose role that extends class' constructor to accept single arguments
libmoosex-param-perl - simple Moose role providing a standard param method
libmoosex-singlearg-perl - module to instantiate Moose objects using a single argument
libmoosex-types-structured-perl - Moose extension for type constraints on structured types
libparams-validationcompiler-perl - module to build an optimized subroutine parameter validator
libpod-spell-perl - formatter to easily check the spelling of POD
libpostfix-parse-mailq-perl - module to parse the postfix mail queue
libtest-deep-unorderedpairs-perl - Test::Deep plugin for comparing lists as if they were hashes
libxml-atom-microformats-perl - parse microformats in Atom content
libxml-libxml-debugging-perl - get debugging information from XML::LibXML
node-url-to-options - Convert a WHATWG URL to an http(s).request options object
roffit - convert nroff manual pages into HTML
tea - graphical text editor with syntax highlighting
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
The string href can only be found in the following package:
libjson-path-perl - search nested hashref/arrayref structures using JSONPath
My understanding was that apt-cache search pattern would identify only packages where pattern is found.
Why is it that href does not occur in the identified packages?
