Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:38:34AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > --- bdeferme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I remember, dselect can show available packages. > > > > > > Can dpkg do that? > > > > I'm afraid not, you might want to use dselec

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread bdeferme
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS: I always get 2 copyes of your email Probably because he does a "Reply All" instead of "Reply To List". Yeah sorry, that's what I did, my bad. I'm on another list(work related) where it's rather usual to do a "Reply all" to make sure people -not-

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 04:38, Serena Cantor wrote: > --- bdeferme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I remember, dselect can show available packages. >>> >>> Can dpkg do that? >> I'm afraid not, you might want to use

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Serena Cantor
--- bdeferme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I remember, dselect can show available packages. > > > > Can dpkg do that? > > I'm afraid not, you might want to use dselect, or apt-cache offcourse. > Why would you want to list all available packages an

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/8, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I remember, dselect can show available packages. Can dpkg do that? apt-cache search package_name or apt-get install [tab][tab] will ask you to show all available packages in the repositories pointed by sources.list raffaele

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread bdeferme
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I remember, dselect can show available packages. Can dpkg do that? I'm afraid not, you might want to use dselect, or apt-cache offcourse. Why would you want to list all available packages anyway? Could be a huge list. P.S. Try to reply at the bot

(Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Serena Cantor
I remember, dselect can show available packages. Can dpkg do that? --- bdeferme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how to use dpkg to list all packages in doc section that can be installed? > > > > just list package names. > > > > Thanks! > > dpkg -l wi