Thank you for your kind reply, but mere apt-get install displays the names of the packages that to be downloaded. Please see http://bit.ly/16HfPo for example. I would like to get those file names with their download path. Could you help me ?
On 9/11/09, Ansal mon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Could you please tell me how to get the list of files which apt-get > > command downloads on a new software installation ? > > > aptitide can search through packages using a particular pattern, for > example listing all installed packages or dependent packages. I don't > know how to search for dependent packages of a package that are not > installed. If anyone knows, please reply. Anyway, you will find the > following information useful. > > apt-cache depends <package-name> shows the dependent packages of the > given package. aptitude search '~i!~E' shows all the installed packages > in the system. > A neat output, showing only package names on both occasions can be > produced by- > > aptitude search '~i!~E' | grep -v "i A" | cut -d " " -f 4 > to get only the names of all packages installed in the system > > apt-cache depends <package-name> | tail -n +2 | cut -d: -f 2 > to get only dependent package names for the package > <package-name> > > May be, you can redirect the output of the above commands and get the > differences between them to see what packages need to be downloaded. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
