On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:04:32PM +0800, linux china wrote: > hi, > > using the dpkg -l to get a list some installed package lists like this, > dpkg -l some-pattern > if the package name is too lang, its name is cut because of the limit > of the columns 80. if I wanna output name and description, what's the > command line? > I don't know what the proper thing to do is, but I always redirect the output to a file then view it. dpkg -l some-patter > op.txt