Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu

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Date	2014-02-04 13:45 +1100
Subject	Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious: How do you go "digging for stuff starting with 'z'" ?
>
> OR: How do you grep inside apt?
>
> I know "dpkg -S pattern"
>
> It helps to connect pattern with package
> But no good if pattern is common -- Other day I was struggling with
>
> dpkg -S which

dpkg --get-selections

will show all installed packages, in alphabetical order. Probably not useful.

dpkg --get-selections|grep -- '-dev'

will show all -dev packages, which IS useful. Except on a system that
I run, in which case you still need to eyeball roughly two hundred
installed packages :D Hence my failure to find the one I wanted.

ChrisA

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Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 02:50 -0800
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 12:08 +0100
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Ram Rachum <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 17:14 +0200
    Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 07:51 -0800
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-02-03 16:50 +0100
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 05:48 +1100
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 13:05 -0600
  Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 06:11 +1100
    Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 18:34 -0800
      Re: Problems compiling Python 3.4 on Ubuntu Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-04 13:45 +1100

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