Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Quoting Robert Guthrie (rguthrie@pobox.com):
> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> > Robert Guthrie <rguthrie@pobox.com> writes:
> > > I'm using this command:
> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde
> <snip>
> > > What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care
> > > about that and the package name.
> >
> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }'
> >
> > moritz
>
> That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
> truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
> nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
> me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
> Running this at the console (as opposed to an X terminal window) doesn't
> behave any differently.
I'm not sure what you mean by pipes and truncation. The output of
dpkg -l is stuffed into columns whose width appears to be variably-
fixed according to the version/distribution.
If you're to happy fiddle with the output, a better start may be
dpkg -s `dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1` | less
but why bother--- /var/lib/dpkg/status contains all this and more.
You've just got to ignore the paragraphs that don't contain
a Version: line.
Cheers,
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