On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:00:45PM -0600, DvB wrote: > "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed > > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I > > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example).
<SNIP> > > Also, I'm a bit unfamiliar with all the packages ... there might be more > > missing than just X related stuff. I know the Debian installer installs a > > lot of stuff without mentioning specific package names (it might in the > > advanced mode which I haven't used) ... is there a way to get a list of > > packages the installer installs by default? And also the packages that > > correlate with the general names it uses? > > > > if you run apt-get with the -u option, it should give you a list of > packages that it's about to upgrade and prompts you whether or not to > proceed. I don't know how to do this automatically, I usually just add > the -u by hand... I suppose you could set up an alias in your shell > profile. Read the man pages for dpkg, apt-get and apt-cache for more > useful ways to see package info (you might also want to visit > http://packages.debian.org). To automatically get the output that apt-get -u displays, you need a line like Apt::Get::Show-Upgraded "true"; in either /etc/apt/apt.conf, or in a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ (I'm not totally sure on the conventional structure for this directory). HTH Bec
