Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status shows on installed packages

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 16:28 -0400, Len Berman wrote: > I just installed sarge on a new machine and NO packages in status are > listed as not-installed. I'm using synaptic and it knows that there are > packages which are not installed. (I discovered this using and old > script I had written which

/var/lib/dpkg/status shows on installed packages

2006-05-07 Thread Len Berman
I just installed sarge on a new machine and NO packages in status are listed as not-installed. I'm using synaptic and it knows that there are packages which are not installed. (I discovered this using and old script I had written which used dpkg-awk to find documentation packages that are not ins