"apt-cache policy dpkg" gives the following output :
dpkg:
Installed: 1.13.26
Candidate: 1.13.26
Version table:
*** 1.13.26 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.13.25 0
500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r5 _Etch_ - Official i386
DVD Binary-1 20081023-23:00] etch/main Packages
And "dpkg -l dpkg" gives the following output :
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 dpkg 1.13.26
package maintenance system for Debian
Regards,
John Smith
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-12-27 15:23 +0100, John Smith wrote:
>
>> The command "apt-cache show dpkg" prints out the following :
>>
>> Package: dpkg
>> Essential: yes
>> Priority: required
>> Section: admin
>> Installed-Size: 6296
>> Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <t...@dpkg.org>
>> Architecture: i386
>> Version: 1.13.26
>> [...]
>> Package: dpkg
>> Essential: yes
>> Priority: required
>> Section: admin
>> Installed-Size: 6296
>> Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <t...@dpkg.org>
>> Architecture: i386
>> Version: 1.13.25
>
> Okay, so apt knows about the new dpkg 1.13.26 in 4.0r6, but 1.13.25 is
> not forgotten either. What do you get from "apt-cache policy dpkg" and
> "dpkg -l dpkg" ?
>
> Sven
>
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