On 10/06/11 22:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote:
<snipped> >>> To find a package I also frequently do something like this: >>> >>> yum list available |grep abr_package_name >> >> This is either "apt-cache search abr_package_name" to look for >> prospective packages or "dpkg -l abr_package_name" to show the state of >> packages on your system. > > No. It's not. Please do not confuse newbies. 'dpkg -l' merely shows > installed packages, 'yum list' shows installed and *available* > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it. To list all available packages:- # apt-get update (refresh database of available packages) # apt-cache dumpavail | less (will give you detailed info on all available packages - difficult to grep through though) # apt-cache pkgnames | less (will give you just the package names for all available packages, in no particular order) I find most useful:- # apt-cache search [regex] | less Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi about the merits of vi :-) # apt-get -s whatever (is your friend) Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4df2226e.4030...@gmail.com
