Debian Packages Question

Debian Packages Question

[Janina Sajka]

How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian
system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment.

Thanks.


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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Kirk Reiser]

Hey Janina: dpkg -l will show you everything you have loaded.

  Kirk

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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Scott Berry]

Here is what I do Janina.  I use a program called Aptitude.  In this app
you can actually go under installed applications and then pick the
particular subcategory like docs electronics or games and then you
choose the one you want to remove if you like.  the way to remove the
package is to highlight the name of the package with the cursor and then
hit the dash key on the top of the keyboard and this tells Aptitude to
remove the package.  Then when you are actually ready to do the true
remove just hit the f10 key and enter on install/uninstall which is the
top object.  Then you must hit f10 one more time I think this is a
security feature so you don't actually remove something you don't want
to remove.  There is also a f for forget package but haven't
successfully gotten this to work when removing packages.  What this does
is simply delete the package from the list as long as it is highlighted
I believe.  I haven't read much of the docs on this it was pretty simple
to get going so I have been a touch lazzy about reading the docs.On Sun, 8
Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian
> system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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>
> Janina Sajka
> Email: janina@rednote.net
> Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
>
> Director, Technology Research and Development
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> http://www.afb.org
>
> Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> Free Standards Group
> http://a11y.org
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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Scott Berry]

Oh wow thanks for the new command Kirk I wasn't aware of that either.On
Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hey Janina: dpkg -l will show you everything you have loaded.
>
>   Kirk
>
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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi all,

	How do you determine which package contains a particular utility/lib/whatever from all the Debian packages (not just the ones you already have installed)?

	For example, the 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos' utilities must be in a Debian package somewhere. but which package?

	--terry

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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Kirk Reiser]

Gees my day for debian answers dpkg -S program_name will show which
package the command is in.

  Kirk

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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Forget is used to "forget new packages".  If you run stable, it
isn't useful for much.  On an unstable system, packages added to Debian
since the last time you did an apt-get update or an aptitude update show
up in a new packages group.
I always make sure to read the screen before I confirm I really want
aptitude to continue installing or removing packages.  It sometimes does
unexpected things.  When it decides to remove something important, just
schrole down to the package name and change it back with + or -
before I let aptitude continue.  Also, the leter g is a shortcut for
install/remove.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:38:00AM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
> Here is what I do Janina.  I use a program called Aptitude.  In this app
> you can actually go under installed applications and then pick the
> particular subcategory like docs electronics or games and then you
> choose the one you want to remove if you like.  the way to remove the
> package is to highlight the name of the package with the cursor and then
> hit the dash key on the top of the keyboard and this tells Aptitude to
> remove the package.  Then when you are actually ready to do the true
> remove just hit the f10 key and enter on install/uninstall which is the
> top object.  Then you must hit f10 one more time I think this is a
> security feature so you don't actually remove something you don't want
> to remove.  There is also a f for forget package but haven't
> successfully gotten this to work when removing packages.  What this does
> is simply delete the package from the list as long as it is highlighted
> I believe.  I haven't read much of the docs on this it was pretty simple
> to get going so I have been a touch lazzy about reading the docs.On Sun, 8
> Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian
> > system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Janina Sajka
> > Email: janina@rednote.net
> > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
> >
> > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > http://www.afb.org
> >
> > Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> > Free Standards Group
> > http://a11y.org
> >
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> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Scott Berry]

Right on thanks for the cues.On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  Forget is used to "forget new packages".  If you run stable, it
> isn't useful for much.  On an unstable system, packages added to Debian
> since the last time you did an apt-get update or an aptitude update show
> up in a new packages group.
> I always make sure to read the screen before I confirm I really want
> aptitude to continue installing or removing packages.  It sometimes does
> unexpected things.  When it decides to remove something important, just
> schrole down to the package name and change it back with + or -
> before I let aptitude continue.  Also, the leter g is a shortcut for
> install/remove.
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
>
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:38:00AM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
> > Here is what I do Janina.  I use a program called Aptitude.  In this app
> > you can actually go under installed applications and then pick the
> > particular subcategory like docs electronics or games and then you
> > choose the one you want to remove if you like.  the way to remove the
> > package is to highlight the name of the package with the cursor and then
> > hit the dash key on the top of the keyboard and this tells Aptitude to
> > remove the package.  Then when you are actually ready to do the true
> > remove just hit the f10 key and enter on install/uninstall which is the
> > top object.  Then you must hit f10 one more time I think this is a
> > security feature so you don't actually remove something you don't want
> > to remove.  There is also a f for forget package but haven't
> > successfully gotten this to work when removing packages.  What this does
> > is simply delete the package from the list as long as it is highlighted
> > I believe.  I haven't read much of the docs on this it was pretty simple
> > to get going so I have been a touch lazzy about reading the docs.On Sun, 8
> > Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian
> > > system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Janina Sajka
> > > Email: janina@rednote.net
> > > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
> > >
> > > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > > http://www.afb.org
> > >
> > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> > > Free Standards Group
> > > http://a11y.org
> > >
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Re: Debian Packages Question

[Janina Sajka]

Cool! Thanks, Kirk.

Since this is Debian day, I guess I want to ask one more ...

If I wanted to delete everything relating to X on a particular system,
should I just go after something like XFree and trust apt to also remove
all the dependencies? Or, do I list all the pkgs to remove? Or, is there
a slicker way?


Kirk Reiser writes:
> From: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
> 
> Hey Janina: dpkg -l will show you everything you have loaded.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina@rednote.net		
Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://a11y.org

Re: Debian Packages Question

[Shaun Oliver]

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in this case apt-cache  is your friend.
the command syhntax is apt-cache search util.
after that use apt-cache show util to have the information about the
package displayed.

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debian packages question

[Jude DaShiell]

Does any command exist amongst the debian packages commands that can be 
used to do a syntax check on package installation content before package 
installation is tried?  I know how to just download packages but don't 
know if such syntax checking possibilities exist.