On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > 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. > > Does this do what you want? > > aptitude search '!~i'
This gave me a list of packages that I do not have installed. Surely "!" equals "not"? aptitude search '~i' , on the other hand, gave me a long list of things that I have got installed. Lisi -- 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/201106110743.43850.lisi.re...@gmail.com
