On 19 Jun 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Could you show me how you do a dpkg -l netscape\* with apt? If this > can be done with non-tuncated package names and version numbers of the > not-installed packages, this would rock even more. apt-cache search 'netscape.*' --names-only -f And pull the versions out of the response I suppose. It would be much better if there existed a perl/python native interface.. Jason