Scot Jenkins wrote: >>X-windows >> No idea at all on this. Chewie showed me something on how to do a test of packages or hardware for X, but I don't recall it. I didn't have the normal keyboard/mouse/monitor that I use at the installfest. If I were to bring them I'd have to also unplug all my systems from the KVM switch. >> >> > >dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 > the -plow is not necessary, dpkg-reconfigure defaults to show all package questions. I'm not sure about hardware detection, I know red hat's kudzu has been ported to a debian package, I've heard good things about it, but never used it. You might want to give it a try. >>How do I see what packages are installed on my system? >> >> > >dpkg -l # lists pkgs installed >dpkg -p <pkgname> # lists available packages >dpkg -S /path/to/file # see what pkg contains '/path/to/file' > >you could also use dselect (curses based). I'm sure there are other >ways too. I'm pretty new to Debian...but an old slack user. > > apt-show-versions is a very nice tool I use. This has options to show only upgradable packages, all versions of a specific package, and a few other things. It's "brief" mode is very cool for taking a snapshot of a system's installed packages and the which distribution each is from, in apt-get'able format, IMO this is better than just dpkg --get-selections, _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list