Re: getting full package name
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 05:18, Craig Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> If I would like to know the name of a package, for example dhcp,
> installed on the system, I would run
>
> dpkg -l | grep dhcp
>
> Most of the time I get the right name and I'm happy. But there are times
> when the name of the package is so long that I cannot tell what the name
> is.
>
> In that situation if grep through the file /var/lib/dpkg/available and I
> find the full name.
>
> This is just a helpful hint for newbies that may have this problem.
This is easier:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l dhcp\*
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