A good tool to see a list of what you do and don't have installed is "console-apt" (aka: Deity) I believe it's available in woody and sid. It has a lot of features built in that I have written scripts for in the past... :) * Blake -----Original Message----- From: Chris Cowan [mailto:chris@ctprm.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:57 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Debian Question! How do you get a listing of the available packages from apt-get? aka after you update the list how can you see what's available to install? Chris ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss