On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:50:31PM +0530, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > *** Please type your report below this line *** > Hi all, > The aptitude package has two options. One is either using the aptitude > GUI or the aptitude CLI. > In the aptitude GUI one can see and resolve,purge obsolete packages. I > read the man page of aptitude but didn't find any option to show which > are obsolete packages on the CLI. So there are two possibilities . > > 1. There is no such switch or flag which shows this information. > 2. There is a switch or flag or combo but this is not documented.
You want aptitude search "?obsolete". Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
