From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 69-144-146-8.client.bresnan.net ([69.144.146.8] helo=Bear.bresnan.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aprx2-0007iu-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:38:32 -0500 Received: from scott (helo=localhost) by Bear.bresnan.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AprwW-0002PJ-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:38:00 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 09:38:00 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Berry X-X-Sender: scott@Bear.bresnan.net To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20040208161352.GI27090@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <20040208161352.GI27090@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Debian Packages Question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:38:33 -0000 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >