Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

[Sebastian Kayser <mls@skayser.de>]

Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> I would like to save the names of all the installed packages.
> 
> # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
> 
> Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated.
> What's the option to provide to display the full name?

a) You may try to call dpkg -l with COLUMNS set to more than 80.

# COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 }'

See 'man +/COLUMNS dpkg'.

b) You can also get the list of installed packages via

# dpkg --get-selections | awk '{ print $1 }'

- sebastian