Listing installed packages in Debian Sarge

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 11/14/06, Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm checking out a Debian Sarge system.
> I'm running the commands below to find out what packages are installed.
>
> apt-cache pkgnames --installed
> less /var/lib/dpkg/available
> dpkg -l
>
> Any suggestions, alternatives or gotchas as to the above?
> I understand that dpkg -l displays installed packages as well as removed
> packages.
> How do I show only the installed packages?


Hi Meng... Try:

dpkg -l | grep ii | less


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