Sunday, August 3, 2008
See installed applications using aptitude
Labels: applications, aptitude, installed, search 0 commentsJust a quickie for today--
If you are interested in finding the package name of an application you have installed, here's a quick line to do it:
aptitude search| grep -G "^i"
That's all there is to it. Here's an example:
eyeslocal@buntuputer:~$ aptitude search fire | grep -G "^i"Hope that helps someone else other than me... ♦DiggIt! ♦Add to del.icio.us ♦Add to Technorati Faves
i firefox-3.0 - safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
i firefox-3.0-gnome-support - Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firefox
i firefox-gnome-support - meta package pointing to the latest gnome-
i gambas2-gb-db-firebird - The Firebird driver for the Gambas databas
eyeslocal@buntuputer:~$
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