Hi Loren, On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:29:45PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I am looking for a way to find all packages that have been installed on > my system according to dpkg, but don't have a matching entry in Apt.
Packages installed with dpkg -i *do* show in apt, so can you be more specific about what you are looking for? Example: $ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/zola_0.19.0-1_amd64_bookworm.deb $ apt show zola Package: zola Version: 0.19.0-1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Maintainer: Martin Simon <mar...@simon.tf> Installed-Size: 38.1 MB Depends: libc6 (>= 2.35), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2) Homepage: https://github.com/getzola/zola Download-Size: unknown APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status Description: A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. Zola is a static site generator (SSG), similar to Hugo, Pelican, and Jekyll (for a comprehensive list of SSGs, please see Jamstack). It is written in Rust and uses the Tera template engine, which is similar to Jinja2, Django templates, Liquid, and Twig. Content is written in CommonMark, a strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown. > I would like to do it in a very programatic way without relying on > output aimed for human if possible. Just grepping the output of dpkg -l, > for example, means I have to exclude headers and ensure that the column > doesn't get truncated or otherwise mangled. dpkg-query is usually used for structured queries of the dpkg database. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
