Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 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 think part of the confusion is that there are various references to a
mythical "Aptitude Reference Manual" which are actually [I think]
referring to the "aptitude reference guide" otherwise known as Chapter
2 of the "aptitude user's manual" -
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02.en.html and which
contains a section on search patterns that itself contains a subsection
on search term reference
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html
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