Re: Listing of packages to upgrade

[Thomas Weinbrenner <thomas@thomas-weinbrenner.de>]

Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> when doing an upgrade to newer versions I see a listing of which packages
> will be installed and which will be removed, like:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   alsaplayer alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-common alsaplayer-esd
>   [...]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   bonobo-activation chipcard-tools dictionaries-common g++-3.2 gconf2
>   [...]
> 131 packages upgraded, 44 newly installed, 11 to remove and 1 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 78.1MB of archives. After unpacking 35.7MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 
> Can I find somewhere a listing of those 131 packages which will be
> upgraded?

apt-get -s upgrade (or apt-get -s dist-upgrade) 

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Thomas Weinbrenner