[ILUG] apt q: files not owned by any package

[Pádraig Brady]

bobb wrote:
> Justin Mason hath declared on Thursday the 08 day of June 2006  :-:
> 
>>I'm having a hard time remembering this: the name of a command which, on
>>an apt-based system (ie. Debian/Ubuntu), lists the files *not* owned by
>>any installed package.
> 
>  
> cruft ?

How does that compare to:
(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info*.list ; find / -type f ) | sort | uniq -u

or even:
(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info*.list ; locate '*' ) | sort | uniq -u

Pádraig.