On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> > is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to
> > just output which packages have updates available?  i'd like something
> > like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all
> > questions. But -n doesn't exist from what I can see. :)
> >
>
> apt-show-version | grep upgradeagle
>
> Will that do what you want?

yeah that works great. someone else mentioned the -s (simulate) parameter (for aptitude) and that seems to work as well. I like the output of apt-show-versions better much cleaner looking, thanks!

Matthew Lenz