On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 5:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > > What about listing packages in cache that are not installed > Browsing over man apt-get apt-cache dbkg I didn't notice a command > that lists all the packages onboard that are not installed.
Why would you want to do that at the command line ? There are in excess of 9000 packages in sid ...you would be in for a very long read. Use a front end to apt/dpkg such as dselect to display available packages. -- Simon Hepburn.