On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 10:21:13 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> The output from "dpkg -l" is showing some packages that are not >> present in the repositories I track. > > You are referring to the repositories you track now. What about those > repositories you no longer track. (Does deb-multimedia ring any bells?) >
You are right. I did add deb-multimedia at some point and then commented it out now. Those packages may be lying around in my system now. >> How to change this behaviour so >> it only shows packages that are available in repositories? > > Impossible. 'dpkg -l' only shows packages which have files on the system. > > Perhaps you would like to reframe your query? > Let me rephrase my question. If "dpkg -l" cannot do it, is there some other command that will only show packages from the current repositories? If "dpkg -l" only shows packages which files on the system, what files should I remove, so that packages such as flashplayer-mozilla will not show up in its output? If there is no generic way of doing it, can I do it just for just flashplayer-mozilla package? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
