On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com> wrote: > grep -v '^Filename: pool\/main\/' will get everything not in main, > which is the OP's intention, IIRC. Just to be clear, this cmd shows me all pkgs not in main: for pkg in `dpkg -l | grep ii | awk '{print $2}'` ; do if [ `apt-cache show $pkg | grep '^Filename: pool/main/' | wc -l` -eq 0 ]; then echo $pkg; fi; done -Jim P.