Re: how to see the full name in dpkg -l
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0800 or thereabouts, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like:
>
> Name Version Description
> pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-ko-re <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-ko-re <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available)
> pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available)
>
> is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field? How about the
> entire description field?
>
> thanks!
> pete
one would use "aptitude" for what u want.
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