On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:18:35AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
>>
>> The installers are dselect,console-apt,tasksel, and apt-get are ther any
>> others? Can you get a printout of all installed Debian packages and all
>> of the packages not installed? Is there a program like Go back for linux
>> which you run before installing a program.
>
>I just tried 'aptitude' - you can apt-get it - and it's pretty cool.
>Press '?' to learn the commands. It's a curses based apt front end.
I've tried aptitude and console-apt, and i frankly find dselect more useful.
I don't see auto-apt in potatoe - it automatically installs packages for
programs you try to run and don't have installed...
As to the list of installed and uninstalled packages, you can do a lot
of that sort of thing with dpkg-awk. I was trying to get a list of installed
packages with
dpkg -l '*' | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}'
but i found that the package names were truncated in the dpkg output.
dpkg-awk "Status: .* installed$" -- Package | awk '{print $2}'
gave me the complete package names.
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