On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Maury R . Merkin wrote: > Is there a command which returns a list of the *.deb packages presently > installed on my 'puter? Yes there is a command: dpkg --get-selections | more --> get a list of package selections, and write it to stdout. -- The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun... -- Linus Torvalds at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux