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Re: Finding a package name?




Works well enough for me.  Thanks,  now I just wish I could
do a "dpkg -P -a" but that doesn't work.



Thus spake Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov):

> "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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 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'



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