Ah, yes. Of course. APT is a front end for dpkg. Should have thought to look under dpkg docs. Thanks. Do you happen to also know the answer to the other part of my question? Which was -- How do you get notification of what packages are available for upgrading before starting the upgrade? Hugh Esco writes: > From: Hugh Esco <hesco at greens.org> > > Try this: > > dpkg -l | grep <package name you are looking for> > > I suspect that dpkg has its own man page. > You can also use this command to install an individual package. > > dpkg -i <packagename> > > if the *.deb package is already in the current directory. > > -- Hugh > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > This raises a question: How does one get a list of all the apps > > currently installed? I know how to do that with rpm, but I don't know > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
