Re: Firewall On Slink

["Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie@nerp.net>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, David Warnock wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> If I did not use dselect is there a way to see or get some lists eg
> 
> a list of all installed packages?

  # dpkg -l | more

> a list of all not installed packages?

  Download AptFind (command apt-find) from Freshmeat.net

> a list of out of date packages?

  Well, you don't really need the list if you do an 

  # apt-get dist-upgrade

> a list of all packages showing which are installed etc?

  # apt-find

> I would be interested in dicovering ways to use apt without dselect, but
> so far I have not felt the need for more power.

  Learn how to use 'dpkg'.

^chewie

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