On 07/19/2018 10:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote:While there are commands like aptitude search and aptitude why available for such purposes, these are really designed for routine maintenance. For your purposes, I think you need to develop a more intimate relationship with the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/,or look at the utilities that the package dctrl-tools provides ;-)
For my fellow newbies who come across this thread, the associated man pages are:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/grep-dctrl.1.en.html grep-dctrl, grep-status, grep-available, grep-aptavail, grep-debtags https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/sort-dctrl.1.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/tbl-dctrl.1.en.html generate tabular representations of data in dctrl format https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/sync-available.8.en.html sync dpkg's available database with apt's databaseGREP-DCTRL(1) says in part, "Use your imagination! The building blocks are there ..."
I believe it ;/ I suspect piping its output to tbl-dctrl will be interesting to say the least.
Thanks.