I've found dpkg-awk to be very useful for these types of questions. Try dpkg-awk -f /var/lib/dpkg/available 'Depends:.*kdelibs3' -- Package or use 'Depends:.*libqt2.2' for all Qt packages. You get the idea. I usually pipe the output through 'grep -v ^$ | sort | less' to make it more readable. cheers, brian Patrick Goetz wrote: > is there any way to get a list of what kde packages are available?