checking installed packages in debian

[Sean McMahon]

Can't you also use dpackage -l?
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From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: checking installed packages in debian


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> 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.
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> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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