Re: for those new to debian systems

["Matt Barnes" <barnes matt gmail com>]

Another one that I use to list my installed packages is:
dpkg -l * | grep ii | more

It lists all packages, greps out those marked as ii (installed) on the system, and pipes it to more (screen full at a time). I usually put this in a shell-script so it can be run at anytime.

Also, depending on your screen reader, I like to use the -q option with apt-get. It will cause the progress indicators to be silent and cuts out quite a bit of the spam.

On Dec 12, 2007 9:25 AM, Aldo < blinuxman tuxfamily org> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:29:18AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Try a couple commands like: which apt-cache.  If that comes back with a
> file name, you can do apt-cache search "search string" and find what
> packages might do that.  I like apt-cache search "search string" | less
> though better.  less is a output pager quite useful to have on systems
> too.

Maybe a good extra command is apt-cache show appname  like in
apt-cache show lynx
With the search param you can't see details, while show shows details,
author, dependences, conflicts, suggested extra packages, and recommended
extras, very useful IMHO.

Aldo.

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