Re: Finding missing packages
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:00:45PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> "jennyw" <jennyw@dangerousideas.com> writes:
>
> > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed
> > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I
> > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example).
<SNIP>
> > Also, I'm a bit unfamiliar with all the packages ... there might be more
> > missing than just X related stuff. I know the Debian installer installs a
> > lot of stuff without mentioning specific package names (it might in the
> > advanced mode which I haven't used) ... is there a way to get a list of
> > packages the installer installs by default? And also the packages that
> > correlate with the general names it uses?
> >
>
> if you run apt-get with the -u option, it should give you a list of
> packages that it's about to upgrade and prompts you whether or not to
> proceed. I don't know how to do this automatically, I usually just add
> the -u by hand... I suppose you could set up an alias in your shell
> profile. Read the man pages for dpkg, apt-get and apt-cache for more
> useful ways to see package info (you might also want to visit
> http://packages.debian.org).
To automatically get the output that apt-get -u displays, you need a line like
Apt::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
in either /etc/apt/apt.conf, or in a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ (I'm not
totally sure on the conventional structure for this directory).
HTH
Bec
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