On 14 June 2010 19:03, Akkana Peck <akk...@shallowsky.com> wrote: > Chris Jones writes: >> I was simply pointing out that in addition to apt-get's >> functions, there really is nothing that aptitude can technically do that >> can't be done already with other built-in tools. > > I use aptitude primarily for aptitude search. It shows which packages > are or are not installed, deleted etc., which apt-cache search doesn't. >
dpkg -l "baz*" not good enough for you? For more robust syntax use dpkg-query > Is there a better way of getting this information without aptitude > (and without firing up a gui program)? Certainly aptitude isn't > perfect (like the way it truncates lines at the display width even > if stdout isn't a terminal), but getting the same information with > other programs seems like it requires scripting or at least a fairly > long shell pipeline. > > ...Akkana > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
