Hi, it's normal behavior: 'dpkg -l' shows the installed packages. If you want to know which packages are available, you should use apt-cache. I generally use 'apt-cache search <one or more words>'. Then you can have a look at the found packages using 'apt-cache show <package-name>', and at last install it using 'apt-get install <package-name>'. Hope this helps, Eric Arthur B Olsen wrote:
Just installed debian 3.1 and i have a strange problem. I've had it once before, but it dissapeared by it self. Or maby i fixed it without knowing what i was doing. A dpkg -l shows only a list of installed packages. But i can use apt-get install package, when i know what the package is called. Then it shows up in dpkg -l. Does anyone know why this is so? arthur