Re: list of installed packages

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 18:34:38 +0200, Robert Cates wrote:
> 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.

This works on my machine:

dpkg -l \* | awk '/^ii/{print $2}'

If you still get truncated package names, try:

COLUMNS=1000 dpkg -l \* | awk '/^ii/{print $2}'

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Regards,
          Florian