On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:43:28AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:12:42 -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> > > > wrote: > > > > apt list '~o' > > > > > > Where is '~o' documented? apt(1) mentions dpkg-query, but I couldn't > > > find it mentioned there either. > > > > It's documented as part of "aptitude", I believe, but it's not in the > > aptitude(8) man page, because that would be too easy. > > Ahhh. Never used aptitude, not even installed on my systems. (Then > again, I still use dselect sometimes so... ) >
Hi Mike, Mentioning dselect - that will give you all the obsolete packages it can't find - usually at the top of the interface but it does need some degree of expertise to unravel what it shows. (I just used dselect to find obscure packages I'd long since thought that I'd purged). All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org)
