Stefan writes: > Pet peeve: `dpkg -l foobar' may tell me that foobar doesn't exist, yet > `apt-get install foobar' will download and install it.
Dpkg doesn't know anything about packages that have never been installed. > This is particularly annoying when you don't know the name of the >package, so you do `dpkg -l \*foo\*' and it tells you there's no such >thing. Why not have a `apt-get list' or something like that? Or does it >exist already? man apt-cache -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]