Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

[Janina Sajka]

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
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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