Printing application list

Albin Blaschka albin.blaschka at sbg.ac.at
Mon May 30 15:27:24 UTC 2005


Douglas Alves schrieb:

> As a way of learning about Linux/Ubuntu/Debian/My system, I often read
> down the list of apps in Synaptic with their description. This way I can
> also discover what tools are available for anything I need or have
> thought about doing.
> 
> Is there a way of printing out the list of installed/available
> applications with their description?

Hello,

in a terminal dpkg -l show all *installed* packages with a *short* 
description, with "dpkg -l > packages.txt" you can generate a Text-File 
with this information...

Not much, but a little bit... ;-(

Greetings,Albin


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