for those new to debian systems

[Matt Barnes]

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 at 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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