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Re: Lots of problems - help please



On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:27:57 +0200, Daniel Klein <bringa@gmx.at> wrote:
> I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you
> have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package
> is called? If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and
> I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would help
> already. 

'dpkg -l' will list everything you have installed, 'apt-cache search
keyword' will let you search available packages, but you should just
really use aptitude, does all of that in a menu'ed interface, or you
can use it just like apt-get.

Rob



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