Your message dated Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:42:49 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#192292: dpkg -l prints only installed packages, not
all available
has caused the Debian Bug report #192292,
regarding dpkg -l prints only installed packages, not all available
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: normal
The man page says dpkg -l with no further arguments returns all packages
in /var/lib/dpkg/available however it appears only installed packages
are being returned
dpkg -l |grep package-name does not find an uninstalled package whereas
dpkg -l package-name
and
grep "Package:.*package-name" /var/lib/dpkg/available
do
more interestingly,
john@gohan:~$ dpkg -l |grep -v "^ii"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
john@gohan:~$
so no packages without installed status returned by dpkg -l
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gohan 2.4.20 #3 Tue May 6 12:10:13 IST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.10 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 16:42:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Thus closing this report.
Err, closing now…
Thanks,
Guillem
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