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Monday, June 08, 2015

A small example of advance aptitude usage

Few years ago I 'preserved' few example of advance aptitude usage I found on a Debian mailing list. Recently I had a chance to use them again. I was looking for a version of packages with distinguish string in a name (let say it was 'apache').

aptitude versions \$(aptitude search ~iapache| awk '{print \$2}')

  • So first I ran aptitude search for 'apache' term, but only among installed packages - aptitude search ~iapache
  • From the results I cut package name (second column) - awk '{print \$2}'. Please note I escaped dollar character, because I run this command using Ansible (see this blog entry for more details).
  • The outcome of those two command allows me to query package versions - aptitude versions

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