prevent "dpkg -l" from showing nonexisting packages
The output from "dpkg -l" is showing some packages that are not
present in the repositories I track. How to change this behaviour so
it only shows packages that are available in repositories?
Consider for example
% dpkg -l \*flash\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================-===============-===============-==============================================
un flashplayer-mozilla <none> <none> (no
description available)
un flashplugin <none> <none> (no
description available)
rc flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.7 amd64 Adobe Flash
Player - browser plugin
un hal-flash <none> <none> (no
description available)
un libflash-mozplugin <none> <none> (no
description available)
which shows flashplayer-mozilla in the output. But that package does
not exist in the repositories.
% rmadison flashplayer-mozilla
<returns no output>
My repositories are
% inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main
contrib non-free
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates
main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates
main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main
contrib non-free
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/
stretch-debug main contrib non-free
% uname -a
Linux hogwarts 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.13-1 (2017-02-27)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
thanks
raju
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