On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given > package. > > In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like: > > [snip] > > Priority: extra > Section: misc > > [/snip] > > How might one determine all packages (installed or not) that fall under a > particular "Priority" or "Section" ? > > I was thinking something pseudo like aptitude show $(all packages) | grep > (essential or required or important or standard or optional or extra)
aptitude search ~s<section> aptitude search ~p<priority> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

