Re: [tlug] apt-get and yum

[David Stibbe <dstibbe@example.com>]

Hector Akamine wrote:
> Is there any command I can use in ubuntu to list the installed
> packages in the system 

dpkg -l | grep ^ii

> and the available packages in the repositories?

apt-cache search  (might want to perform 'apt-get upgrade' first)

> Today I tried ubuntu for the first time, it seems that apt-get does
> not have equivalent options to "yum list installed" and "yum list
> available".

What is yum ?  :S (sounds tasty)

David