lamer question display installed pkgs

[Larry Shields]

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.
>
> There is always `ls /var/cache/apt/archives|less'  but I thought I once
> knew an apt [something] command to show installed pkgs.
>
> It appeared in a kind of roster with other pkg information too, as I
> recall but it has been years ago so may have been something besides
> the apt tools.
>
>
>   
Try dpkg -l will then show you whats installed...

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