On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 04:12:43PM +0100, David Warnock wrote: > Mark, > > If I did not use dselect is there a way to see or get some lists eg > > a list of all installed packages? > a list of all not installed packages? > a list of out of date packages? > a list of all packages showing which are installed etc? > > I would be interested in dicovering ways to use apt without dselect, but > so far I have not felt the need for more power.
i didn't see any mention of it in this thread, and it certainly should be included (although it probably won't do what you want): apt-cache search <string> searches the package descriptions apt-cache show <package> shows a "dpkg -s" like listing the nice thing is that both of these work on uninstalled packages too, unlike "dpkg -s" (this is for apt-cache from potato - apt-cache from slink is a bit slim on the features) -- - Gus
