On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 23:47:31 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >Hello, > >Today I reinstalled Etch on my machine. After upgrading and everything, >I noticed that "dpkg -l" is not listing some of the packages which are >not already installed. I was looking for vim for example, and "dpkg -l >vim" did not list it. However "apt-get -s install vim" did find it and >showed that it could be installed. What am I missing here?
dpkg doesn't know about all packages that are available. From the man-page: dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The tool I use to find packages from the command line is apt-cache: % apt-cache search vim | wc -l 40 I can also recommend aptitude to manage packages. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Good powers of observation are frequently called "cynicism" by those that don't have them.
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