On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0800 or thereabouts, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when i do a dpkg -l "*netscape*", some of the output looks like: > > Name Version Description > pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-java- <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-ko-re <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-ko-re <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available) > pn netscape-smoti <none> (no description available) > > is there a way to tell dpkg to show the entire name field? How about the > entire description field? > > thanks! > pete
one would use "aptitude" for what u want. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 9DE1 5825 77B4 FF45 7485 D3EB DCCF DE48 09B6 4426 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who's watching the watchmen?"
