On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:42 -0500 Craig Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > If I would like to know the name of a package, for example dhcp, > installed on the system, I would run > > dpkg -l | grep dhcp > > Most of the time I get the right name and I'm happy. But there are > times when the name of the package is so long that I cannot tell what > the name is. > > In that situation if grep through the file /var/lib/dpkg/available and > I find the full name. But if you really only want the information for packages that are installed, and not all that are available, I like to do the following: 'dpkg --get-selections | grep dhcp' HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #58: With Windows Millennium, Microsoft was able to get the boot time down to 25 seconds. That's almost as short as it's uptime.
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