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Re: Installing postgresql on Debian Lenny.



On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:31:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-11 06:59, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:48:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 2009-09-11 02:39, Chris Davies wrote:
> >>>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>>Try this, as a start:
> >>>>$ aptitude search postgresql | grep ^postgresql | sort
> >>>On my version of aptitude (0.4.11.11) that can't possibly work. (Remove
> >>>the ^ and it might.)
> >>>
> >>????
> >>
> >>What does aptitude have to do with grep?
> >
> >Lines do not start with the package name for the standard output format
> >of aptitude search results.
> >
> 
> Oh.
> 
> Well.... they should!!!
> 
> ;)

Well, they do if you ask aptitude nicely ;)

aptitude -F%p search '~n^postgresql'

(I am taking the opportunity to advertise the "-F" option a bit because
 it does not seem to be as widely known as it deserves to be.)

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