Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

shorton wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Another RH to Debian convert question...
>
> I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc.  I've mostly gotten the
> hang of dselect I think.
>
> Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run
> to get the desired result:
>
> rpm -qa = show all packages installed?
apt-show-versions

But you need the apt-show-versions package, which can easily be 
installed with 'apt-get install apt-show-versions.  It will give you 
something like this:

$ apt-show-versions |grep exim
exim/testing uptodate 3.36-8

Of course, if you omit the grep, it will list all installed packages, 
the distribution (stable, testing, unstable) and the version.

> rpm -q --whatprovides xxxx = tell me what package provided program
> xxxxx
Not sure on this one.

> Thanks very much for the education as I convert to debian!
>
> Scott


-Roberto

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