Thanks Andrei, this was very helpful (it was very fast; no problem there) bye Joe Danish
-------------------------------------------- Den søn 23/2/14 skrev Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]>: Emne: Re: List of package descriptions in one subkategory Til: [email protected] Dato: søndag 23. februar 2014 16.00 On Du, 23 feb 14, 14:19:52, Joe Dalton wrote: > Hi I can easily use f.ex Synaptic and see a list of all package > descriptions f.ex in Science, but how do I get this list out in a > file.txt (or something similar). You could start with something like this: for pkg in `aptitude search ~sscience~Aunstable -F %p` ; do apt-cache show $pkg >> science.txt ; done (may take a while to complete) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
