On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote: > it's normal behavior: 'dpkg -l' shows the installed packages. If you > want to know which packages are available, you should use apt-cache.
apt-cache is certainly good. But dpkg kan also display a simple list. 'dpkg -l' indeed lists only the installed packages, but you can list other packages as well. For example just do something like 'dpkg -l q*' to list all packages---installed and uninstalled---beginning with a q. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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