[plug] Debian - Package tool Q. (fwd)

[Lindsay Allen]

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> I use dselect less and less, and stick to dpkg and apt-get now. However,
> I'm still resorting to dselect to get info on uninstalled packages, and
> comparing version numbers.
> 
> Is there any way to do this with other tools?? Basically, I'm after:
>   - List/info of uninstalled but available packages

I use less more and more. <g>   Use it to browse the Packages.gz files. 
Have you got lesspipe installed? 

>   - Comparison of version numbers between installed and available

Dselect is still the best tool for this, short of writing yourself an awk
or perl script.

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