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I'm running a Debian testing system with some packages installed from unstable or experimental, using apt pinning.
How can I list all packages that come from unstable or experimental? I'd like to use apt, but I have aptitude and synaptic installed as well.
enricoferrero
Posted 2013-05-31T10:03:07.480
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One option is to install apt-show-versions. For example, to find packages installed from unstable:
$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable
Also, the following script might be of interest: Debian User Forums • View topic - [BASH] A script to check how mixed your system is.
debil
Posted 2013-05-31T10:03:07.480
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Using aptitude you can run the following command:
$ aptitude versions '~VCURRENT (~Aunstable|~Aexperimental) !~Atesting' --group-by=none
This will list all packages whose currently installed version (~VCURRENT) comes from the unstable or experimental archives (~A) and are not present in the testing archive (!~A). The --group-by=none option serves to produce a more terse output.
toro2k
Posted 2013-05-31T10:03:07.480
Reputation: 496
I'm unable to adapt this to filter out packages coming from 'stable' as well, neither to only pick packages coming from 'testing'. I guess I'll never understand how aptitude (or APT for that matter) works. – alecov – 2019-02-23T04:27:14.680
For some reason, that doesn't work for me. It gives me a huge list of packages which are most definitely not from unstable or experimental. The apt-show-version method above gives me the correct output. Can somebody else confirm? – enricoferrero – 2013-05-31T17:05:38.090
Sorry, updated the answer, now should work properly. – toro2k – 2013-05-31T21:03:12.567
Yes, now it works! – enricoferrero – 2013-05-31T22:02:04.410
1The easiest way I found so far relies on the apt-show-version package:
apt-show-version | grep /unstableorapt-show-version | grep /experimental. – enricoferrero – 2013-05-31T11:08:03.000