Re: dpkg hiding packages?

[Bill <bill@sanac.net>]

Thanks Andrew, but I think giving a fileglob to dpkg is more efficient

in this case, dpkg finds everything containing reiser, but grepping dosen't 
work since the output already have been cut :(


bill@tormentor:/coda$ dpkg -l '*reiser*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version         Description
+++-===============-===============-==============================================
un  kernel-headers- <none>          (no description available)
un  kernel-image-2. <none>          (no description available)
un  kernel-patch-2. <none>          (no description available)
un  kernel-patch-2. <none>          (no description available)
un  kernel-patch-2. <none>          (no description available)
un  kernel-patch-2. <none>          (no description available)
ii  reiserfsprogs   3.x.0j-7        User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems

bill@tormentor:/coda$ dpkg -l | grep reiser
ii  reiserfsprogs  3.x.0j-7       User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems



On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:52, you wrote:
> On 2001.12.20 17:03 Bill wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be
> > hiding
> > some packages from my view.  this is disturbing since I use dpkg as my
> > information source on what software I can easily install on my systems
> >
> >
> > dpkg just dosen't see the package:
> >
> > tormentor:/etc/apt# dpkg -l '*coda*'
> > No packages found matching *coda*.
>
> try this:
>
> dpkg -l | grep coda
>
> This is because dpkg is trying to match 'coda' as a package name.
> Use grep so it will show any package name with "coda" in it.
>
>
> --
> Andrew

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