On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:53:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2000 (14:49) : > > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. > > >I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as > > >I'm going to use the package names. > > > > dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > > Ah thanks that was what I was looking for. > > dpkg --get-selections | grep "install" | cut -f1
careful -- that'll also show "deinstall" items: % dpkg --get-selections | grep "deinstall" apache deinstall -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/