Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:35 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeudi 8 février 2007 23:56, Mathias Brodala a écrit : Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:51 -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:35 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeudi 8 février 2007 23:56, Mathias Brodala a écrit : Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:51 -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:35 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeudi 8 février 2007 23:56, Mathias Brodala a écrit : Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le vendredi 23 février 2007 16:02, Michael M. a écrit : [...] Oh now I see! It does indicate the status of the package, just somewhat cryptically: ii, un, etc. Yes ;-) Not obvious if no-one said it to you ! In fact, if dpkg has nether see the package (previously installed, remove or purge),

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-10 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeudi 8 février 2007 23:56, Mathias Brodala a écrit : Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename Or just: $ dpkg -l packagename And if we don't know exactly the

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Hello and welcome Bernard! On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Bernard wrote: [...] #apt-cache search hplip lists a number of related packages that, I think, are supposed de operate together... but this does not tell me whether hplip is installed or not in my system. I think it is

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:52:52 -0500 Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename The second question : how to investigate what packages are installed in my system, with all

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bernard wrote: Thanks in advance for any useful input I think your question has been answered in more than one way, demonstrating the flexibility of debian. One more suggestion/advice: I like to use aptitude just as it is. Just run 'aptitude' without arguments. You will get a nice visual

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:09:53AM -0500, Celejar wrote: dpkg -l hplip* . If you know the exact name of the package, dpkg -s hplip . dpkg -l hplip* is better. If you happen to have any filenames starting with hplip, the shell will insert them as it resolves the glob. Regards, -Roberto --

problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Bernard
Hi there ! Newcomer on Debian (former user of RedHat 7.2), I find the Debian packages kind of hard to manage. With RedHat rpm, I could find very easily whether a package was installed or not, what was the version number etc.. With Debian, I have not yet found the way to go ; I suppose that I

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Nelson Castillo
How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename The second question : how to investigate what packages are installed in my system, with all informations (package name, version etc...) dpkg -l :) There are graphical frontends,

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename Or just: $ dpkg -l packagename Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/07 16:56, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Nelson. Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename Or just: $ dpkg -l packagename Or:

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 23:49 +0100, Bernard wrote: Hi there ! Newcomer on Debian (former user of RedHat 7.2), I find the Debian packages kind of hard to manage. With RedHat rpm, I could find very easily whether a package was installed or not, what was the version number etc.. With Debian, I

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Timothy Musson
Bernard wrote: With RedHat rpm, I could find very easily whether a package was installed or not, what was the version number etc.. With Debian, I have not yet found the way to go [...] #apt-cache search package_name gives me some information on said package, but not the version number. I