Re: scriptable way to list packages that are not installed

[Vasyl Vavrychuk]

Hi, John,

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 8:48 AM, john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote:
> On 1/14/2018 7:28 AM, john doe wrote:
>
> $ dpkg-query -W -f='${db:Status-Abbrev}${binary:Package}\n' awk git gawk
> cmake 2>&1 | awk '!/^ii/ || !/^un/{print $6}'
> git
> gawk
> cmake

I also tried to parse stderr, but then I realized that relying on the output

   dpkg-query: no packages found matching

is not correct since it might be localized and is not suitable for scripting.