RE: list of installed packages
>-----Original Message-----
>From: robcat@kormar.net [mailto:robcat@kormar.net] On Behalf Of Robert
>Cates
>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:35 PM
>To: Debian, User
>Subject: list of installed packages
>
>Hi all,
>
>question - how can I get a list of my installed software packages showing
>the full (proper) package name? This is on my server, so I do not have KDE
>or Gnome, or any other GUI installed, and do everything per command line.
>
>I've tried - 'dpkg -l' and 'apt-cache search ..' , but I cannot see the
>full
>name.
>
>I have a couple of software packages that when I do - 'dpkg -l | grep
>kernel' I see for example - rc kernel-image-2 2.4.27-6 .., but I cannot
>purge this going by this listing.
>
Maybe try ' dpkg -l | cut -d " " -f 3 ' does that help?
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