Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

[Luke Davis]

Must be an easier way, but based just upon what I read here: doing a dpkg
list, then an apt-get update, then another dpkg list, and then a diff, or
similar comparison, might do the trick.

Luke


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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