Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write: > How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed > on my computer? > > I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are > available. But thats not what I'm asking. > > I know its there, because dselect somehow maintains it little > symbols on each package line in its display. I would like that > as a text file that I might pass through grep.
dpkg -l although you may need to set the COLUMNS variable to a larger number in order to prevent some of the fields from getting chopped. See dpkg's manpage for more goodies. (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1), environ(7).) Richard
