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Re: Finding a package name?



"Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rnd-consulting.com> writes:
> How do you find a packagename that's pretty long?
> 
> {0}:iggy:/root>dpkg -l | grep ^r                   
> rc  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6                 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers.

There might be a more elegant solution but I've always used:

dpkg --get-selections

It doesn't give the version numbers but you don't need that to purge
it. 

Gary



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