Re: dpkg and apt questions :)

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:51:41AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> > BTW, I know I can put a package on hold using dpkg --force-hold, but I
> > do not know how (or if it is possible) to see which packages are on
> > hold
> 
> 'dpkg --get-selections'

Right. But this will be too long and too noisy to see in one screen. 

I usually do following :-)

 $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -e 'hold$'

Of course, I also use '| less' if needed.
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