Its been a good while since I used apt-get and apt-cache. I once, yrs
ago ran debian for a while.

I can't remember how to get a list of installed pkgs.
After browsing both man apt-get and apt-cache... I still didn't see a
switch that shows installed pkgs.

There is always `ls /var/cache/apt/archives|less' but I thought I once
knew an apt [something] command to show installed pkgs.

It appeared in a kind of roster with other pkg information too, as I
recall but it has been years ago so may have been something besides
the apt tools.


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On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 22:02 -0500, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Its been a good while since I used apt-get and apt-cache. I once, yrs
> ago ran debian for a while.
>
> I can't remember how to get a list of installed pkgs.
> After browsing both man apt-get and apt-cache... I still didn't see a
> switch that shows installed pkgs.

Package lists aren't produced by the apt family of tools, but by dpkg.
Try the following:

dpkg -l




Tim


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reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Its been a good while since I used apt-get and apt-cache. I once, yrs
> ago ran debian for a while.
>
> I can't remember how to get a list of installed pkgs.
> After browsing both man apt-get and apt-cache... I still didn't see a
> switch that shows installed pkgs.
>
> There is always `ls /var/cache/apt/archives|less' but I thought I once
> knew an apt [something] command to show installed pkgs.
>
> It appeared in a kind of roster with other pkg information too, as I
> recall but it has been years ago so may have been something besides
> the apt tools.
>
>
>
Try dpkg -l will then show you whats installed...

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reader@newsguy.com wrote:

Its been a good while since I used apt-get and apt-cache. I once, yrs
ago ran debian for a while.

I can't remember how to get a list of installed pkgs.
After browsing both man apt-get and apt-cache... I still didn't see a

switch that shows installed pkgs.


In addition to Tim and Larry's comments, you can search for a specific
package using familiar shell globbing as long as you enclose the glob in
single quotes, or escaping them (to avoid the shell interpretting them).
For example, to find packages names with "ssh" in them:


dpkg -l '*ssh*'

Another great command is finding out which package a file came from (you
need the full path...that's a common gotcha!):


dpkg -S /full/path/to/file

Have fun

Cheers,

James
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Title: lamer question display installed pkgs



De:*reader@newsguy.com
Enviado el: dom 27/04/2008 5:02
Para: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Asunto: lamer question display installed pkgs


>It appeared in a kind of roster with other pkg information too, as I
recall but it has been years ago so may have been something besides
the apt tools.



See http://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Listing_Installed_Packages


( I also like http://offline.debian.net for offline downloading of not-downloaded packages).


Regards.
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