On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:09:44AM +0200, Mike Gerber wrote: > > A tool which lists all packages which are no longer downloadable from > > any APT source would be more helpful, I think. Does it already exist? > > I have a slighty inefficient script for that. I believe there are better > ways to do what listallpackages does, unknown to the author of the script > back then ;-) (Reminder to myself: Don't post ugly hacks to mailing > lists.) At least this does its purpose without deselect nor aptitude. Well, you can list installed packages with either: $ dpkg --get-selections | egrep "[[:space:]]install" [ will not show the version #s and might show half-installed packages ] $ dpkg -l "*" | grep ^ii [ shows the information you are asking for ] But it would be best if this was implemented using libapt. I have sample Python code using libapt to detect packages that need updates [1], it could be trivially changed to show those packages for which there are no updates available. If anyone is interested in taking a look at it speak up. Regards Javier [1] Pet project: port of the Red Hat Network Applet to Debian before I became aware of apt-watch
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