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Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?



Stefan writes:
> Pet peeve: `dpkg -l foobar' may tell me that foobar doesn't exist, yet
> `apt-get install foobar' will download and install it.

Dpkg doesn't know anything about packages that have never been installed.

> This is particularly annoying when you don't know the name of the
>package, so you do `dpkg -l \*foo\*' and it tells you there's no such
>thing.  Why not have a `apt-get list' or something like that?  Or does it
>exist already?

man apt-cache
-- 
John Hasler



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