On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:07:50PM +0000, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> 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.
Or stormpkg / gnome-apt / aptitude
Johann
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