Re: Is there a way to determine

[Santiago de Ledesma <santiago.de.ledesma@vanderbilt.edu>]

try apt-cache search <expression>
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 15:13, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> Sorry for the newbie question.  I'm new to the Debian package management 
> system.  Is there a way to determine what packages are available from 
> the repositories I have in sources.list?  I use dpkg --list to see 
> what's installed, but is there a way to see what packages are available, 
> but not installed?  I tried dpkg --update-avail * but nothing seems to 
> happen.  I'd like to see what kernel packages are available, I tried
> dpkg --update-avail kern* then dpkg --list but only see the kernel stuff 
> already installed.  What am I missing???
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> 
> DSP
>