On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 09:36:35PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > You can read the packages status file for information from > > /var/lib/dpkg/status. This lists, IIRC, all packages available from > > your various apt sources, whether installed or not, and is somewhat more > > flexible than looking for the same information from dselect. > > > My impression is that the status file only contains info about packages > I ever expressed some interest in. My status file mentions 709 packages, > but the available file 2694.
I stand corrected. Look to the "available" file then. I'm still learning this stuff myself. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0