Re: Firewall On Slink
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 04:12:43PM +0100, David Warnock wrote:
> Mark,
>
> If I did not use dselect is there a way to see or get some lists eg
>
> a list of all installed packages?
> a list of all not installed packages?
> a list of out of date packages?
> a list of all packages showing which are installed etc?
>
> I would be interested in dicovering ways to use apt without dselect, but
> so far I have not felt the need for more power.
i didn't see any mention of it in this thread, and it certainly should be
included (although it probably won't do what you want):
apt-cache search <string>
searches the package descriptions
apt-cache show <package>
shows a "dpkg -s" like listing
the nice thing is that both of these work on uninstalled packages too,
unlike "dpkg -s"
(this is for apt-cache from potato - apt-cache from slink is a bit
slim on the features)
--
- Gus
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