On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:05:16AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110611_074343, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt > > > > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly > > > > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it. > > > > > > Does this do what you want? > > > > > > aptitude search '!~i' > > > > This gave me a list of packages that I do not have installed. Surely "!" > > equals "not"? > > > > aptitude search '~i' , on the other hand, gave me a long list of things > > that I > > have got installed. > > > > Lisi > > "Available" can mean available from a Debian managed repository, which > probably includes all the installed packages on your machine and all > that you have not installed as well. To get the complete list use '~T' > > OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question > from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be > mentioned in Debian documentation but seemed not to exist. My quick > search indicates that this situation still exists in 2011. The > aptitude man page references 'Aptitude Reference Manual' but I get no > hits for that string while searching www.debian.org, or googling the > general web (other than questions about where to find it, over the years). > > I did find > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_the_aptitude_regex_formula > which contains a long list of aptitude regex formulae. > I found this: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03.html
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