Re: Find installed contrib and non-free packages

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Friday 13 June 2008 07:17, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2008 06:10, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:27:12PM +0200, Vladislav Kurz wrote:
> > > 1. remove contrib and non-free from /etc/apt/sources.list
> > > 2. run dselect (update, select) and you will see all contrib and
> > > non-free packages as obsolete/local packages.
> >
> > Good, because it will show other suspects as well. E.g. packages
> > from non-Debian apt sources, which are also unsupported
> > security-wise. I wonder how I can achieve the same using just
> > apt-get/apt-cache? I remember, that I once wrote a script using
> > python-apt to get this information, but the script is lost :~(
>
> In lenny
> $ aptitude search "~o"
>
> In etch I think this will work (but very slow)
> $ for i in `aptitude search "~i" -F "%p"` ; do apt-show-versions $i ;
> done | grep "No available version in archive$"
Actually no need for aptitude,  
$ apt-show-versions |grep "No available version in archive$"
will do the job.

HTH
Andrew