On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > 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. > Yes, but Nico is looking for "all available packages", which I took to mean "available for me to install". That's why I excluded the already-installed ones. But now that you've caused me to take a second look, I wonder if he wants a list of all packages, installed or not.
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