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How to find a package starting with a given string at packages.ubuntu.com?

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I was trying to find a package named libkf5kjs-dev. Now I know the exact name of the package, but when I went to the search page at packages.ubuntu.com I only knew that it started with the string libkf5. If I type this into the keyword field:

and press "Search", I get a lot of results but none of them matches
libkf5kjs-dev. What am I missing here? How should I search to get the correct package?

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answered 2 Years ago eanda · Accepted Answer

Running the "libkf5" search keyword on packages.ubuntu.com returns:

Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed. Please consider using a longer keyword or
more keywords.

It looks like the website has an upper limit on the number of search results. I would suggest using apt-file (install using sudo apt install apt-file) instead to return all possible results:

$ apt-file search libkf5 | grep libkf5kjs-dev

libkf5kjs-dev: /usr/share/doc/libkf5kjs-dev/changelog.Debian.gz

libkf5kjs-dev: /usr/share/doc/libkf5kjs-dev/copyright

libkf5kjs-dev: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libkf5kjs-dev

where you can see that libkf5kjs-dev can be found.