Joe Moore said: > Also, I'm not getting any output (at all) from dpkg-query --show. > jmoore@cvglx10:~$ dpkg-query --show --showformat="-=>${Package}<=-\n" ae > -=><=- Oops, Sorry. That was easy to fix. The ${Package} was getting taken by the shell. Switched to using single-quotes, and it works. --Joe