Re: dpkg -l is not listing packages on a new Etch installation

2006-06-05 Thread Magnus Therning
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

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Carl Greco
Sebastian Kayser wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. What's the option to provide to display the full name? a) You may try

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Sebastian Kayser
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. > > # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > > Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. > What's the option to provide to display the full name? a) You may try to call dpkg -l with CO

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:37:50PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. > > # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > > Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. > What's the option to provide to display the fu

Re: dpkg -l question

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:20:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I see that when I run > # dpkg -l > > I get a nice listing of installed packages, but if I pipe > that command into less or more or even grep , > then the listing gets scrunched up, and it cuts off the end of packages >

Re: dpkg -l question

2005-06-29 Thread michael
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I see that when I run # dpkg -l I get a nice listing of installed packages, but if I pipe that command into less or more or even grep , then the listing gets scrunched up, and it cuts off the end of packages with longer names. Is there a way to display it to

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > > available packages

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:36:38 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used >> to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* >> available packages? > >

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:45:48PM +0100, GCS wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dpkg -l \* > > > > It's been like this ever since I started using Debian, IIRC. > > Uh-oh. I just have not know this. Good priest learn 'till death > (hu

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg -l \* > > It's been like this ever since I started using Debian, IIRC. Uh-oh. I just have not know this. Good priest learn 'till death (hungarian sentence). I just bow in front of you Colin, you make an exc

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > available packages? dpkg -l \* It's been like this ever since I started using Debian

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread GCS
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > available packages? Hmmm. It's not that easy, but you can check the

Re: dpkg -l output

2003-12-21 Thread Martin J Hooper
On 21 Dec 2003 at 14:56, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see > *all* available packages? Are you looking for something in particular? If so "apt-cache search " is your fr

Re: dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii

2002-05-31 Thread Ben White
try COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l instead, that'll have more space to have each field in the table bigger. On Fri, 31 May 2002, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > A question about good old dpkg -l $args | grep ^ii : > > Is there any way to convince dpkg not to shorten the second field of the > output, i.e. make sure

Re: dpkg -l long-package-names

2002-04-04 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:31:25PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Hanspeter Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the command `dpkg -l ...' prints a name colunm which length is > > limited. As a result long package names are cut and may be displayed > > ambigiously. > > Is there an op

Re: dpkg -l long-package-names

2002-04-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Hanspeter Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the command `dpkg -l ...' prints a name colunm which length is > limited. As a result long package names are cut and may be displayed > ambigiously. > Is there an option to habe the name colunm wider? Run it like: COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l Gary

RE: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-11 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
dpkg-awk "Status: .* installed$" -- Package | cut -d: -f2. -Ramesh -Original Message- From: Jim Woodruff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: "dpkg -l" redirection Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard out

Re: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-10 Thread Jim Woodruff
On 10 Mar 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 19:26, Jim Woodruff wrote: > > Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard output of "dpkg -l" to > > a file without the truncation that takes place? > > $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > file > Thank you, Jim -- Jim Woodruff < [EMAIL P

Re: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 19:26, Jim Woodruff wrote: > Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard output of "dpkg -l" to > a file without the truncation that takes place? $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > file -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file. Use 'dselect > > > > update' instead, which does 'apt-get

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:47:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file. Use 'dselect > > > update' instead, which does 'apt-get update' and then merges it with >

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Erik Steffl: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: > > > > 'apt-get update'

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file.

Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file. Use 'dselect update' instead, wh

Re: dpkg -l

2000-11-27 Thread Colin Watson
rp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi. Does someone knows if it is possible to show disk space taken by >some packages in a similar way to dpkg -l output? >This would make life easier to users who do not have unlimited disk space ;) It's in the status file, so, with the grep-dctrl package: [EMAIL