* Arthur B Olsen <maillists@teletech.fo> [050619 14:01]: > Just installed debian 3.1 and i have a strange problem. I've had it > once before, but it dissapeared by it self. Sorry, but what exactly is your problem? > A dpkg -l shows only a list of installed packages. But i can use > apt-get install package, when i know what the package is called. > Then it shows up in dpkg -l. > > Does anyone know why this is so? It's the normal behaviour of dpkg. Without any furhter parameter "dpkg -l" which just lists packages which have still files installed (meaning currently installed and removed unpurged packages). If you would like to list more, use e.g. "dpkg -l \*" or simpy use "apt-cache search foo bar" to search for packages. However yoy might want to use a high level package management tool like aptitude or synaptic. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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