Re: Debian Questions on apt-get
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
>> On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt
>> > > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly
>> > > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it.
>> >
>> > Does this do what you want?
>> >
>> > aptitude search '!~i'
>>
>> This gave me a list of packages that I do not have installed. Surely "!"
>> equals "not"?
>>
>> aptitude search '~i' , on the other hand, gave me a long list of things that I
>> have got installed.
>>
> Yes, but Nico is looking for "all available packages", which I took to
> mean "available for me to install". That's why I excluded the
> already-installed ones. But now that you've caused me to take a second
> look, I wonder if he wants a list of all packages, installed or not.
>
> -Rob
That was helpful, thank you.
Frankly, I've gotten fond of "synaptic" for more sophisticated package
handling rather than aptitude, but it has a lot of dependencies and is
not scriptable the way your published commands are.
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