On Sun February 15 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The first three lines of the "dpkg -l" output tell you what the > abbreviations mean. The ASCII art lines of pipes and slashes indicate > which information is at each position (first "desired", then "status", > then "error") and the capitalized letters point out how each possible > value is abbreviated.
I thought the significance was the "n7".. srry I missed that. So it isn't "rc" it is r=removed c=config, meaning I didn't purge that package. when I do an apt-cache search , sometines I see rc, and just thougth it was removed packages. thanks ! > > A Package with "rc " has "Desired=Remove", "Status=Cfg-files" and no > errors (since there is no third letter). This means that you had the > package installed at some point, that you then removed it without > purging the configuration files, and that there were no problems > encountered during the removal. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
