Can't you also use dpackage -l? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:44 AM Subject: Re: checking installed packages in debian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:02:18 PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Is there a way to get an output of packages installed on a debian > > system, without having to arrow around in aptitude? The closest answer > > I found to what I'm looking for is > > > > apt-cache pkgnames > > > > , though that seems to give me all the packages in debian, not just > > the ones currently installed on the system. Thanks in advance. > > You can use aptitude in command line mode: > > aptitude search '~i' > > will display installed packages. You will probably want to pipe the > output through less. You can read all about the different kinds of > expressions you can use in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README. > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDFs2V5JK61UXLur0RA2H7AJsE35cZggl8nTgIgdI/Jg3Jj9FcEACeO+Gu > KQZ8wZpDmxV9oH/rVzvJ8K4= > =C974 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
