Bill Wagner said: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:50, nate wrote: > >> you THINK you have it installed but it is not :) (glad you posted the >> output). the first 2 letters rc means the package is removed but the >> configuration files are still there(which can be removed with dpkg >> --purge) > > Acha! I was wondering what that 'rc' was! :) BTW, how can one find out > more about those types of things? The 'dpkg' man page doesn't really say > much about it, but I'd really like to learn more about the whole process > and little things like this 'rc' seem to be pretty important ;)
I don't remember where I first learned it, but doing a dpkg -l can give some hints(probably not enough though): Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ (...packages listed here..) glad to help and glad it works :) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
