[plug] Debian - Package tool Q.

[Mark Tearle]

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
>   - Comparison of version numbers between installed and available
> 
Try out  apt-find  (it's a package, so apt-get install apt-find :) )

Yours
Mark
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