Re: apt-get debconf

[Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:04PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > 
> > dpkg -s <package name> | grep debconf
> > apt-cache show <package name> | grep debconf
> 
> Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows minimal information for
> packages that aren't installed yet, not including dependencies.

Thanks for the correction.  I should really have used the dpkg manual to
refresh my memory. (And remembered to have tested the command on an
uninstalled package!)

Brian.