Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Hastings
* Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030826 10:29]: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030826 10:29]: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Nick Hastings
* Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030825 11:25]: Hello all Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some stuff that hasn't

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Piers Kittel
You are quite right, and I apologise for being arrogrant and ignorant. Thanks very much to everyone who helped me with my query. Cheers - Piers Quoting Charles-Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I hope the comment 'dselect is useless' is just an unfortunate use of words used when you were a little

Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. Thanks very much

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:23:55AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread James Steward[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could try dpkg -l JS On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:23 pm, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:23:55 +0100 Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Damien Solley
There's even handy scripts that'll show arrange the dpkg output by size of package, so you can really trim it. Someone published this on a newsgroup list a while back, but am not sure who it was! Very nice output, kudos to the original author. Oh, and here it is (a the bottom of the page):