How to see the list of available packages in Ubuntu?

dpkg can be used to install the packages in Ubuntu. To see the currently available packages, there is –list (-l) option. $ dpkg –list   Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name                                            Version                                         Description +++-===============================================-===============================================-============================================ ii  acpi-support                                    0.136                                           scripts for handling many ACPI events ii  acpid                                           1.0.10-5ubuntu2                                 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface e [...]

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