Incoming from Stephen Touset: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: > > > On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > > > I need things like libs, just the package names. > > > > I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything that is > > installed, including the libs. > > > > The only way of knowing "what you installed" is by keeping a list > > yourself. E.g. apt-get install x-window-system gets you tons of things, > > but all you installed was x-window-system. > > dpkg --get-selections | tr "\t" " " | cut -d\ -f1 | grep -v lib | wc -l
Nope. That finds stuff that's since been removed. dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | ... might lead you to where you want to go. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
