On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:00:43AM -0500, Tim Gokcen wrote: > I prefer to use the command-line interface to upgrade my packages, using > "apt-get dist-upgrade". I find that the lists of packages to be > installed/removed/upgraded hard to read given that they are formatted with > multiple names per line. [...] > screen, I find this list almost impossible to read. I would like it if apt had > a configuration or command-line option, like the 'ls -1' command, to show such > lists on a one-item-per-line basis.
You could use the -V option. With this option, the versions of the packages are shown and each package on one line. -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: [email protected] Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
