Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I beg to differ: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 9% dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc > 126 9528173 > > Seems there are 126 that are not both installed and desired. It shows > all the packages that it knows about. The

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:40:22 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:29]: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim > > >

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Hastings
* Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:29]: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > > > inst

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:12:59 +0900 Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks s

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Piers Kittel
You are quite right, and I apologise for being arrogrant and ignorant. Thanks very much to everyone who helped me with my query. Cheers - Piers Quoting Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I hope the comment 'dselect is useless' is just an unfortunate use of > words used when you were a litt

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-25 Thread Nick Hastings
* Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030825 11:25]: > Hello all > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some > stuff that

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Damien Solley
There's even handy scripts that'll show arrange the dpkg output by size of package, so you can really trim it. Someone published this on a newsgroup list a while back, but am not sure who it was! Very nice output, kudos to the original author. Oh, and here it is (a the bottom of the page): http://l

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:23:55 +0100 Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread James Steward<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You could try dpkg -l JS On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:23 pm, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all > > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it m

Re: Checking what's installed

2003-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:23:55AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down > the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's > installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelec