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Re: dpkg -l vs dpkg-query -W

 

On 11/26/2011 01:39 AM, David Caro Estévez wrote:

> I think that in this case we shold change both. This way you can have one
> command that shows the info of the package and one that only shows the
> version (for scripting for example).


OK, so we can include:

dpkg -l ?:Package name:Display status, name, version and brief description of given package


and also

dpkg-query -W ?:Package name:Display name and version of given package

Works for me :)

Jonathan



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