On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> [030826 10:29]: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > > Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp> wrote: > > > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim > > > > down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list > > > > of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is > > > > useless as it marks some > > > > > > > > stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. > > > > > > dpkg -l | grep ^ii > > > > dpkg -l works just fine, since it only reports the installed > > packages. > > I beg to differ: > > hastings@twofish ~ 9% dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc > 126 952 8173 > > > Seems there are 126 that are not both installed and desired. It shows > all the packages that it knows about. It seems to list all packages installed or packages removed but not purged. jkoenig@note:~$ dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii 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 +++-==============-==============-===================================== ======= rc telnet 0.17-20 The telnet client. I replaced telnet with telnet-ssl. It had a few other packages, but I took the opportunity to purge them. I had been looking for a way to find out what packages had been removed but not purged. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Flogging Molly - These Exiled Years : Swagger Today is Boomtime, the 18th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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