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Re: (solved on my own) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages



On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:30:11PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:02:41AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> >> aptitude search \!~i~sdoc only lists 4 packages.
> >>
> >> surely main of sarge has far more than that.
> >>
> >> I've got many replies, none solved my question. Thanks anyway.
> >>
> >> I'm java programmer, I'd rather write a program to parse a file in
> >> /var/lib/apt/lists
> >> to list desired packages.
> > 
> > then do so.
> > 
> > or try this
> > 
> > apt-cache search --names-only doc
> 
> That misses (random pickings):

indeed. I was only trying to give her a tool to answer a kind of vague
moving target-question... 

A

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