Re: list all packages that are installed
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On Friday 11 January 2002 05:22 pm, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write:
[snip]
> dpkg -l
>
> although you may need to set the COLUMNS variable to a larger number in
> order to prevent some of the fields from getting chopped.
>
> See dpkg's manpage for more goodies.
>
> (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
> couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
> environ(7).)
A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from
a very large xterm window, for example), 'dpkg -l > foo' will
still create a 78 column output.
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