On 3/1/06, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello *, > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > May be I was not clear. I wanted to packages installed say from nerim > > source. How to get it? > > If there is an appropriate entry in /etc/apt/sources.list and the list > have been updated (i.e. via "aptitude update"): > > | $ aptitude search '~i~O"Unofficial Multimedia Packages"' | wc -l > | 18 > > So I have 18 packages from nerim.net installed. > "Unofficial Multimedia Packages" as per the corresponding > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_sid_Release. > > See /usr/share/aptitude/README for details about the search term. > > > Further how to know what packages available from a source say nerim. > > How to go about? > > See above, just drop the ~i.
Thnaks for the help. But for Debian Unofficial, it didn't work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/apt/lists$ cat ftp.debian-unofficial.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Release Archive: stable Version: 3.1 Component: main Origin: Debian Unofficial Label: Debian Unofficial Architecture: i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude search '~i~O"Debian Unofficial"' | wc -l 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pkgl|grep sun ii mozilla-sun-j2se5.0-bina 1.5.0.06-1duo1 Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Runtime Environment (Br ii sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary 1.5.0.06-1duo1 Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Development Kit (JDK) ii sun-j2se5.0-jdk-doc-en 1.5.0-1duo1 Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Documentation (English) ii sun-j2se5.0-jre-binary 1.5.0.06-1duo1 Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Runtime Environment (JR [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pkgd sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary Package: sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 49216 Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary-i386 Version: 1.5.0.06-1duo1 Provides: sun-j2se5.0-jdk, java-compiler, java2-compiler, j2sdk1.5, sun-j2sdk1.5 Depends: libc6, sun-j2se5.0-jre-binary (= 1.5.0.06-1duo1) Recommends: netbase, libx11-6 | xlibs, libasound2, libgtk1.2 Suggests: mozilla-sun-j2se5.0-binary, sun-j2se5.0-jce-binary, sun-j2se5.0-jdk-doc Filename: pool/non-free/s/sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary-i386/sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary_1.5.0.06-1duo1_i386.deb Size: 31395306 MD5sum: 441bab0dfad24893f0d5a6f44356e11f Description: Sun Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Development Kit (JDK) The Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK) includes development tools (compilers, debuggers, tool libraries and other tools). All sun packages are installed from debian-unofficial. whether with apt-cache search can also give the results? if so what should be regex or from where can I get info? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042