Re: dpkg -l and other tools do not report all packages?

To: Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>
Cc: debian-devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: dpkg -l and other tools do not report all packages?
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:05:25 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20011004130525.B9969@wiggy.net>
Mail-followup-to: Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>, debian-devel <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
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References: <[🔎] 3BBC41EB.F267F23D@bigfoot.com>

Previously Erik Steffl wrote:
>   why is that? is there any way to get accurate information?

dselect update. If you only use "apt-get update" you only update
apts database of available packages.

Wichert.
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