Try this too if virtualbox is the specific package you're interested in: $ grep -A 3 "^Package: virtualbox\$" /var/lib/dpkg/status Package: virtualbox Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib/misc
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh (2015-05-10 05:53:17) > > When i use : grep ^Status: /var/lib/dpkg/status , > > Unfortunately , i only get "Status: install ok installed" > > how sure are you of that? Did you just look at the first few hundred or > did you > really find all unique values? Try: > > grep ^Status: /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort | uniq -c > > cheers, josch > -- *Tom Lee */ http://tomlee.co / @tglee <http://twitter.com/tglee>
