kcalc dependencies

[Ray Parrish]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Greg White wrote:
>
>   
>> @H.S.:
>> # aptitude show kcalc
>> Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.1.3), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.1.4), libc6 (>=
>> 2.1.3),
>>          libgmp3c2, libqt4-xml (>= 4.4.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.3),
>>          libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
>>
>> From my /var/cache/apt/archives/
>> kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.1_all.deb
>> kdebase-runtime-data-common_4%3a4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.1_all.deb
>> kdebase-runtime-data-common-kde3_4%3a3.5.10-0ubuntu4~intrepid0_all.deb
>>
>> How can I have the runtime-data but not runtime???
>> How can I tell what packages I have installed?
>>     
Hello,

There are a couple of ways to tell what packages you have installed, One 
is a quick command line trick that polls your /usr/share/ folder for 
package names which have been installed, and their installation dates, 
and sorts them by install date. It is as follows -

cd /usr/share/
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%f  %T+\n' | sort -s -t ' ' -k 2.1nr 
-k 2.6n -k 2.9n -k 2.12r -k 2.15 -k 2.18 > ~/installed.txt

Note that the second command is one long line which wraps to the second 
line in here. Open ~/installed.txt with your favorite text editor to 
view it. There may also be one or two packages found at /opt, /etc/opt, 
and/or /usr/share/applications/ as well. On my system, there is the real 
[real player] package at /opt/, nothing at /etc/opt/, and kde, 
screensavers, and kde4 at /usr/share/applications/ with everything else 
showing in /usr/share/.

To get just the alphabetically sorted package names installed use -

cd /usr/share
ls -a --group-directories-first > ~/packages.txt

You can also open the following file and look through it. It includes 
the names of all installed packages, along with their descriptions, 
dependencies, versions, install dates, and other details. This file is 
huge usually, and could take quite a while to browse through.

<file:///var/lib/dpkg/status>

Or, install  apt-show-versions and run it to get a list of the packages 
installed and their versions on your system.

apt-show-versions > ~/pkgversions.txt

To see which packages need updating run the following

apt-show-versions -u

You can also open Synaptic Package Manager, and use the History menu 
item to access a date and time sorted view of all packages installed on 
your system. This interface allows you to view them in drop down lists 
for each date and time installed. Packages you installed at the same 
time will be grouped together, and a later download the same day will be 
in another grouping in it's own drop down list.

I haven't studied the dpkg command yet, but I'm pretty sure it also 
offers a way or two to examine your installed packages as well.

Later, Ray Parrish

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