lamer question display installed pkgs

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 22:02 -0500, reader at newsguy.com wrote:
> Its been a good while since I used apt-get and apt-cache.  I once, yrs
> ago ran debian for a while.
> 
> I can't remember how to get a list of installed pkgs.  
> After browsing both man apt-get and apt-cache... I still didn't see a
> switch that shows installed pkgs.

Package lists aren't produced by the apt family of tools, but by dpkg.
Try the following:

dpkg -l




Tim