[Nottingham] apt or aptitude or dpkg equivalent

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:35:34PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:28:36 +0200 (CEST), lists at voila.fr
> <lists at voila.fr> wrote:
> > When I was tempted by the not so dark side (rpm based distros) I
> > used as command to get all the packages installed : rpm -q IIRC
> > Is there an equivalent with apt based distros ?
> > rgs,
> > Matt
> > RTFM suggestions welcome as long as someone tells me which FM !
> dpkg -l <packagename>

dpkg --get-selections might be better depending what you want.

Or possibly COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l

Simon.

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