On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:48:31PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Cool that works! But now comes the question, why didn't DPKG > > tell me I had -dev, it didn't reported libxml2-dev when I did a > > "dpkg -l *xml2*, only libxml2? > > dpkg -l doesn't work that way, it only accepts package names.
No, it accepts wildcards too (although if you happen to have a file whose name contains 'xml2' in your current directory then you'll want to use 'dpkg -l \*xml2\*' instead). However, if you only use apt regularly and never run dselect then /var/lib/dpkg/status - and hence 'dpkg -l' won't know about uninstalled packages. If you only ever use apt, try 'apt-cache search xml2'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
