On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just curious: How do you go "digging for stuff starting with 'z'" ? > > OR: How do you grep inside apt? > > I know "dpkg -S pattern" > > It helps to connect pattern with package > But no good if pattern is common -- Other day I was struggling with > > dpkg -S which
dpkg --get-selections will show all installed packages, in alphabetical order. Probably not useful. dpkg --get-selections|grep -- '-dev' will show all -dev packages, which IS useful. Except on a system that I run, in which case you still need to eyeball roughly two hundred installed packages :D Hence my failure to find the one I wanted. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
