Getting a list of installed packages
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file?Thanks in advance for any suggestions.JM Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On 12/27/05, J Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. JM dpkg-query i think it needs some options and redirect the output to a file -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:53, J Merritt wrote:
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian,
preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file?
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n'
(All on one line.) You can write the output of this to a text file.
You can drop some of the fields if you don't need them.
--Mike Bird
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 21:53, J Merritt wrote: Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Yup, you could do dpkg --get-selections | grep install file.txt or dpkg -l | grep ^ii file.txt depending on your needs. See also the dpkg manpage. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:53:46PM -0800, J Merritt wrote:
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably
from the command line and preferably in a text file?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
To show all installed packages you can use the dpkg command, and
then filter the list via grep to those that are installed. (And not
removed/purged). To do this run:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --list |grep ^ii
You might find the package name is truncated, so can fix this
by running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list |grep ^ii
Finally if you just want to see the *name* of the package you can
use awk to print that out alone. This stops you from seeing the
one-line package description too:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list |grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}'
If you wish this list to be in a file just use redirection:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list |grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}'
list.txt
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Jaime Casanova wrote: On 12/27/05, J Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. JM dpkg-query i think it needs some options and redirect the output to a file -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;) this might do it too dpkg -l *|grep ^i -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Le Mardi 27 Décembre 2005 21:53, J Merritt a écrit : Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. JM - Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. Hi, dpkg --get-selections pkg_list.txt
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, J Merritt wrote:
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from
the command line and preferably in a text file?
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |awk '/^[hi]i/{print $2}'
This will generate a list of only the names of packages that are
installed. I use this to back things up so that, in the event I need to
do a bare metal reinstall, I can just restore my sources.list, apt-get
update, and 'apt-get install package-listing'.
-Dennis Carr
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was wanted? If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. The dpkg command cuts it off at 14 characters so the real question may be is there a way to make dpkg produce the entire version field? I don't think so, but I could easily be wrong. John -- Powered by the Penguin In another branch of this thread, Colin Watson pointed out that dpkg seems to know if its output is going to screen (like a wide xterm) or to a pipe, and if it is going through a pipe, it defaults to an arbitrary width (which makes sense, the pipe is as wide as it needs to be). He also pointed out grep-dpkg and friends, which are what I intend to use. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was wanted? If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. The dpkg command cuts it off at 14 characters so the real question may be is there a way to make dpkg produce the entire version field? I don't think so, but I could easily be wrong. In another branch of this thread, Colin Watson pointed out that dpkg seems to know if its output is going to screen (like a wide xterm) or to a pipe, and if it is going through a pipe, it defaults to an arbitrary width (which makes sense, the pipe is as wide as it needs to be). Well, actually, from main/enquiry.c in the dpkg source: else if (!isatty(1)) ws.ws_col=80; So actually it defaults to 80 characters (useful if you happened to be piping it through a pager, for example). 'dpkg -l' is really just for pretty(ish) formatted output for humans. He also pointed out grep-dpkg and friends, which are what I intend to use. dctrl Great! Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting a list of installed packages
I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde and getting this output: snip ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE snip What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care about that and the package name. Thanks! -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using this command:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed
packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. But,
this isn't important...
and getting this output:
snip
ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE
ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE
snip
What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care about
that and the package name.
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using this command:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
snip
What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care
about that and the package name.
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
moritz
That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
Running this at the console (as opposed to an X terminal window) doesn't
behave any differently.
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde and getting this output: snip ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE snip What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care about that and the package name. 'dpkg -l' is designed to produce output that looks reasonable on the screen, so sometimes it has to truncate version numbers. In an X terminal, resizing the terminal will cause it to produce wider output; otherwise (e.g. to a pipe), dpkg-1.7.0 and above (only in woody) will look at the COLUMNS environment variable to determine the width of the display for which the output should be formatted. If you're automatically processing the output, however, 'dpkg -l' isn't really the right tool to use. For individual packages you can do something like 'dpkg -s foo | grep ^Version:'. For the sort of search you're doing you should really install the grep-dctrl package, and then you can do this: grep-status -i kde | \ grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version -FStatus 'install ok installed' grep-dctrl and friends are very useful tools indeed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Quoting Robert Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using this command:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
snip
What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care
about that and the package name.
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
moritz
That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
Running this at the console (as opposed to an X terminal window) doesn't
behave any differently.
I'm not sure what you mean by pipes and truncation. The output of
dpkg -l is stuffed into columns whose width appears to be variably-
fixed according to the version/distribution.
If you're to happy fiddle with the output, a better start may be
dpkg -s `dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1` | less
but why bother--- /var/lib/dpkg/status contains all this and more.
You've just got to ignore the paragraphs that don't contain
a Version: line.
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using this command: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out. That's not strictly true; it doesn't list uninstalled packages, but it will list packages that are half-installed, unconfigured, etc., as well as held packages and packages marked with some action other than install. The command above only lists packages that are installed and marked to install new versions as they appear. The * is bogus though - it will expand to every filename in the current directory, which might well not be what you want. Unless you really do want to expand it, use one of these instead: dpkg -l '*' dpkg -l * dpkg -l \* -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Robert Guthrie wrote:
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using this command:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
snip
What I'm trying to get is the full version information. I only care
about that and the package name.
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
moritz
That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
I'm not certain what you mean by truncated (cut off?) but if you simply mean
that
you want a nicely formated line try.
dpkg -l | gawk ' /^ii/ /kde/ {printf (%-20.20s %s\n, $2,$3)}'
John
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
John Carline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Guthrie wrote:
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
I'm not certain what you mean by truncated (cut off?)
He means that he sees the following:
ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE
ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE
... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.0-final-0.potato.2
respectively.
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:23:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: He means that he sees the following: ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE ... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.0-final-0.potato.2 respectively. The package name also gets truncated at 14 characters. -- We was playin' the Homestead Grays in the city of Pitchburgh. Josh [Gibson] comes up in the last of the ninth with a man on and us a run behind. Well, he hit one. The Grays waited around and waited around, but finally the empire rules it ain't comin' down. So we win. The next day, we was disputin' the Grays in Philadelphia when here come a ball outta the sky right in the glove of the Grays' center fielder. The empire made the only possible call. You're out, boy! he says to Josh. Yesterday, in Pitchburgh. -- Satchel Paige
Re: Getting a list of installed packages
Colin Watson wrote:
John Carline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Guthrie wrote:
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 11:43, Moritz Schulte wrote:
Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde
You can do it with awk: dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 $3 }'
That didn't work either. It seems that anything I run through a pipe gets
truncated. I'm not sure why. If I just run dpkg -l all by itself, I get a
nicely spaced output that I could cut and past from, but that would require
me to do the work that my computer should do for me ;-). Any suggestions?
I'm not certain what you mean by truncated (cut off?)
He means that he sees the following:
ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE
ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE
... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.0-final-0.potato.2
respectively.
Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command isn't
it -
not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was wanted?
If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. The
dpkg
command cuts it off at 14 characters so the real question may be is there a
way to
make dpkg produce the entire version field?
I don't think so, but I could easily be wrong.
John
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Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:16:47AM +, John Carline wrote: Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg -l * | egrep ^ii | grep -i kde I'd like to point out here also, that when I tried to uninstall a package, but it failed due to a dependency problem, the first i changed even though the package was still installed, because apparently my attempt to remove the packages changed the first state to a desired of purge. Seems that this isn't always the right formula. Perhaps this? dpkg -l '*' | perl -ne 'print if substr($_,1,1) eq i' Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html pgp86gqw9gDGF.pgp Description: PGP signature
