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Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?



On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 11:04:16 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > - apt-patterns(7)
> > 
> > Why isn't this linked/referenced from apt(8) or apt-get(8) or aptitude(8)?
> > I just checked all three, and it's not on any of them.
> 
> It is references in the SEE ALSO section of the apt(8) man page which is
> how I found it,

Not in Bookworm, it isn't.  But you're saying it's been improved in
Trixie or something?  That's good!

> Also, it is references earlier under the
> list subcommand:
> 
>            list
> 		      list is somewhat similar to dpkg-query --list in
> 		      that it can display a list of packages satisfying
> 		      certain criteria. It supports glob(7) patterns for
> 		      matching package names, apt-patterns(7), as well as
> 		      options to list installed (--installed),
> 		      upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all available (--all-versions) versions.

Hah.  All the things I asked for in the message I wrote 5 minutes ago
are apparently already done in some future version of Debian.

> I am still trying to figure out where that data comes from. Maybe it
> literally is just what I asked for, matching packages from the installed
> list and without a matching entry in a current Apt repository list file?

Yes.  That's all there is.

> So, then will my broadcom driver appear in the obsolete list if I
> comment out the non-free-firmware section from sources.list? I'll have
> to test that out.

You also have to run "apt update" or an equivalent.


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