Re: Getting a list of installed packages
John Carline <jtc@stic.net> wrote:
>Robert Guthrie wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
>> > Robert Guthrie <rguthrie@pobox.com> writes:
>> > > dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde
>> >
>> > You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }'
>>
>> 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?
>
>I'm not certain what you mean by truncated (cut off?)
He means that he sees the following:
ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE
ii ksirtet 2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE
... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.0-final-0.potato.2
respectively.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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