Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm using this command: >> dpkg -l * | egrep "^ii" | grep -i kde > >It seems that 'dpkg -l' (without the pattern) lists all installed >packages, so you don't need to filter the installed packages out.
That's not strictly true; it doesn't list uninstalled packages, but it will list packages that are half-installed, unconfigured, etc., as well as held packages and packages marked with some action other than "install". The command above only lists packages that are installed and marked to install new versions as they appear. The * is bogus though - it will expand to every filename in the current directory, which might well not be what you want. Unless you really do want to expand it, use one of these instead: dpkg -l '*' dpkg -l "*" dpkg -l \* -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
