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Here’s my version:
dselect update
cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | sed -n ‘p;s/^.//p’ | sed ’s/../&\
/g’ | tr A-Z a-z | grep ‘[a-z][a-z]‘ | sort | uniq -u
It doesn’t quite match the original — having the letter pair appear twice for a single package will disqualify it, rather than disqualification only happen [...]