dpkg -l
"Patrick R. Wade" wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with a command-line method for listing currently
> installed packages on a Debian system? I couldn't find anything in
> the documentation, and i wound up doing:
>
> bash$ for i in `dpkg -l * | awk '{print $2}'` ; do dpkg -s $i |
> > grep -B 1 "ok installed" | grep "Package" | awk '{print $2}' ; done
>
> Which is, you will note, just a little bit longer and more complex than
> BSD's
>
> bash$ pkg_info
>
> --
> It's a hard work, being a network pusher. Your customers beep you in
> the middle of the night, hungry for another fix. But, what can you do?
> Customer satisfaction and all that crap...
> Pays good, though. --Ingvar the Grey, in the Monastery
--
"I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours
with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from
Razorfish
who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it
resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group
discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how
did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?'
My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete
bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a
Knowledge Engineer!'" --dump() on slashdot
