How to show only installed packages by executing "aptitude search"?

Question

After executing the aptitude search pattern command, I need to see only installed packages in the search result. Is there any way to do that?

score 43 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 16 '15 at 05:21

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Add ~i (short for ?installed) to match the installed packages whose name contains bash:

aptitude search '~i bash'

To match whose description contains bash.

aptitude search '~i ~d bash'

To limit to the ones that are not installed:

aptitude search '!~i bash'

edited Apr 16 '15 at 05:21

Luten

answered Dec 09 '13 at 14:24

poige · Answer 2 · 2013-12-09T13:52:01.413

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I usually do dpkg -l|fgrep …. Does it count?

UPD.: aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, …)'

(But I seem to prefer dpkg -l anyway) ;)

edited Dec 09 '13 at 13:52

answered Dec 09 '13 at 13:40

poige

Thank you. Is there any way to do the same with the `aptitude` command as well? – B Faley Dec 09 '13 at 13:44
@Meysam, see the UPD. – poige Dec 09 '13 at 13:52

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