On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 08:40, Harry Putnam wrote: > dpkg -l '*desk*' shows a series of hits, all are preceded by > `un' > > dpkg -l 'gnome*' shows a number of things some are proceeded by > ii and some by un. > > Where does on look to find out what these letters mean. I went thru > man dpkg several times looking for some referrence. A grep with `ii' > gets no hits. dpkg --help doesn't appear to make any mention.
dpkg -l | head The first 3 lines of the dpkg output list what the letters mean. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/courier/smtpaccess$ dpkg -l | head 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 +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii a2ps 4.13b-15 GNU a2ps 'Anything to PostScript' converter ii acct 6.3.5-30 The GNU Accounting utilities. ii adduser 3.45 Add and remove users and groups
