On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining > >> available > >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it's > >> pretty simple > >> from shell prompt to get a list of packages available in currently > >> configured repos, > >> one line each, including package name with version. I have yet to find an > >> equivalent > > ... > > > i'm not able to dig into this further (way behind on this list) > > but rmadison works ok for something like that: > > > ... > > root(5)~# rmadison linux-image-amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 4.19+105+deb10u16 | oldoldstable | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 | buster-backports | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.223-1 | oldstable | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.90-1~bpo11+1 | bullseye-backports | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.17-1 | testing | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable | amd64 > > linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.7-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64 > > Looks perfect, but for 43 things: > # rmadison linux-image > Command 'rmadison' not found, but can be installed with: > apt install devscripts > # apt-get install devscripts > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: [ … ] > 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. > Need to get 3,993 kB of archives. > After this operation, 10.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > #
I would recommend that you add --no-install-recommends to your command line. The difference here is dramatic: apt-get install devscripts 0 upgraded, 149 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. apt-get --no-install-recommends install devscripts 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 08:48:32 (-0400), songbird wrote: > oh, well, ok, i have perl installed for other programs already. > when i did install it there wasn't that much it brought in. I have perl installed but not as a language I program in. Yet installing it didn't bring in all this stuff: libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libaliased-perl libarchive-cpio-perl libarchive-zip-perl libarray-intspan-perl libcapture-tiny-perl libclass-inspector-perl libconfig-tiny-perl libconst-fast-perl libcontextual-return-perl libconvert-binhex-perl libdata-dpath-perl libdata-messagepack-perl libdata-validate-domain-perl libdebhelper-perl libdevel-size-perl libdistro-info-perl libemail-address-xs-perl libfile-chdir-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl libfont-ttf-perl libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libgit-wrapper-perl libgitlab-api-v4-perl libhash-fieldhash-perl libhtml-html5-entities-perl libhttp-tiny-multipart-perl libio-prompter-perl libio-sessiondata-perl libio-string-perl libipc-run3-perl libiterator-perl libiterator-util-perl libjson-maybexs-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl liblist-compare-perl liblist-someutils-perl liblist-someutils-xs-perl liblist-utilsby-perl liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl liblog-any-perl libmime-tools-perl libmoox-aliases-perl libmoox-struct-perl libmouse-perl libnet-domain-tld-perl libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl libobject-id-perl libossp-uuid-perl libparams-validate-perl libpath-iterator-rule-perl libpath-tiny-perl libperlio-gzip-perl libpod-constants-perl libre-engine-re2-perl libregexp-pattern-license-perl libregexp-pattern-perl libsereal-decoder-perl libsereal-encoder-perl libsoap-lite-perl libsort-key-perl libsort-versions-perl libstring-copyright-perl libstring-escape-perl libstring-shellquote-perl libsub-override-perl libsys-cpuaffinity-perl libtask-weaken-perl libtext-glob-perl libtext-levenshteinxs-perl libtext-markdown-discount-perl libtext-xslate-perl libtime-moment-perl libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl libtypes-serialiser-perl libunicode-utf8-perl libwant-perl libxmlrpc-lite-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl ~# rmadison linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 4.19+105+deb10u16 | oldoldstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 | buster-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 5.10.223-1 | oldstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.90-1~bpo11+1 | bullseye-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | testing | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | buildd-experimental | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64 ~# Works ok. Cheers, David.
