Paul E Condon wrote: > 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 lists all installed packages with status and description. Oddly, the dpkg man page suggests that it will list all available packages, but in practice I find that it only lists installed ones. If you want more than that, all the information you want is in files under /var/lib/dpkg. You may need to write scripts to parse out what you're looking for. Craig
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