Re: How to list all files that are going to be installed when doing "apt-get upgrade"?

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

> I know how to list the packages that are going to be installed, like with 
> "apt-get -s upgrade" or "apt-show-versions -u", but I >would like to know 
> which files included in these packages are going to be installed. I have 
> tried "grep" when doing "apt-get -s >upgrade" and "apt-show-versions -u", 
> and thought of piping the output trough "dpkg -L", but my knowledge is too 
> limited for >this.
something like this should work:
for i in $(apt-show-versions -u|awk '{print $1}'); do dpkg -L $i;done

The awk '{print $1}' outputs the first collumn. I don't rember what column 
apt-show-versions shows the package name, so you may need to change this.

To sort the output do this instead:

sort <(for i in $(apt-show-versions -u|awk '{print $1}'); do dpkg -L 
$i;done)