In <[🔎] 201008281043.22026.alain.baeckeroot@laposte.net>, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: >Le 28/08/2010 à 02:49, T o n g a écrit : >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:04:15 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> . . . Aptitude call a >> >> package >> >> "obsolete" when it is installed/configured but it is no (longer) >> >> available from any of your configured sources. >> > >> > Well, similar to the last definition is "orphan". I'm not sure if that >> > is what's been looked for... In that case, I suggest "deborphan". > >What is your problem here ? >one the one hand you ask for advices for choosing tools like a newbie Newbies are not the only ones can can get use out of new tools. Even experts should be comfortable enough to ask questions; no one knows everything. I feel very comfortable using aptitude and there are very specific features (like this one) that I don't know how to reproduce in with the apt tools. >on the other hand you seems to know them rather well and need precise >details, but you don't read the documentation. No, rather, I've read the documentation and I *still* don't think apt can do this simply. The aptitude UI displays obsolete packages by default. The aptitude command- line for showing them is simple: (aptitude search '?obsolete'). Viewing one results of "apt-cache policy" on one of these packages gives an idea of how aptitude is finding them; they only have one available version: /var/lib/dpkg/status a.k.a. "now". Still, apt-cache and the other apt tools don't seem to have a way to search for packages based on their lack of available versions that I can find. So, let me ask the question again, more clearly: What is the apt equivalent of aptitude's (aptitude search '?obsolete')? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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