Listing installed packages in Debian Sarge

[Meng Cheah]

Tim Writer wrote:

>Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> writes:
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>>Hi
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>>I'm checking out a Debian Sarge system.
>>I'm running the commands below to find out what packages are installed.
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>>apt-cache pkgnames --installed
>>less /var/lib/dpkg/available
>>dpkg -l
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>>Any suggestions, alternatives or gotchas as to the above?
>>I understand that dpkg -l displays installed packages as well as removed
>>packages.
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>>How do I show only the installed packages?
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>If I'm reading the output of "dpkg -l" correctly, you're only interested in
>lines where the second character is "i":
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>   dpkg -l | grep '^.i'
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Thanks to all that replied.

I had no details on the system and am checking it out.
Thanks again.

Meng Cheah
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