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Re: Retrieving _FULL_ installed packages list, dpkg --get-selections



On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 06:51:33PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:53:36PM +0300, joost witteveen wrote:
> > Is there any way to get full packages names of packages that are
> > actually installed ('dpkg -l' doesn't work, as it cuts of package
> > names that are too long).
> 
> ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep .list$ | sed 's/.list//'

This work, but this is only a hack.

Don't use this in [post|pre][rm|inst]-scripts or in updates.*-scripts!


Gruss
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