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[Derek Broughton]

Tony Arnold wrote:

> 
> How about this as an alternative. It invokes apt-cache once!
> 
>  apt-cache madison `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f 1` |
> grep 'edgy/universe Packages' | cut -d\| -f 1 > universe-installed.list
> 
> and there should not be any duplicates. It's not version independent
> unfortunately.

Ah, I tried that with the output from "apt-cache pgknames" and it told
me "Argument list too long" - another good reason for dpkg.

So for a version independent method:

# apt-cache madison `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f 1` \
| grep 'universe Packages' | cut -d\| -f 1 | sort -u 
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derek