On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:03:47PM -0500, Bill wrote: > i've got a sad situation i don't understand: dpkg -l don't seems to be > hiding some packages from my view. this is disturbing since I use > dpkg as my information source on what software I can easily install on > my systems
'dpkg -l', in effect, searches the status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status). If you use apt all the time rather than using dselect regularly, the status file may only include installed packages. I generally use dselect, for instance, so 'dpkg -l' always works well for me. I recommend installing the grep-dctrl package and using 'grep-available' to search for packages. It's a much more flexible and useful tool than 'dpkg -l' for pretty much all purposes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
