On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 18:34:38 +0200, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi all, > > question - how can I get a list of my installed software packages showing > the full (proper) package name? This is on my server, so I do not have KDE > or Gnome, or any other GUI installed, and do everything per command line. > > I've tried - 'dpkg -l' and 'apt-cache search ..' , but I cannot see the full > name. > > I have a couple of software packages that when I do - 'dpkg -l | grep > kernel' I see for example - rc kernel-image-2 2.4.27-6 .., but I cannot > purge this going by this listing.
This works on my machine: dpkg -l \* | awk '/^ii/{print $2}' If you still get truncated package names, try: COLUMNS=1000 dpkg -l \* | awk '/^ii/{print $2}' -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]