On Monday September 6 at 11:18pm Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > If I would like to know the name of a package, for example dhcp, > installed on the system, I would run > > dpkg -l | grep dhcp > > Most of the time I get the right name and I'm happy. But there are > times when the name of the package is so long that I cannot tell what > the name is. You can use 'apt-cache search -n <regexp>' to restrict the search to just the name, or 'dpkg --get-selections <regexp>' for installed packages. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: 504plan - Or Else : Punk Vs. Emo (Disc 2 - Emo) Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 30th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/
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