On 9/2/13, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: >> >> Anyone know why I get this: >> >> $ dpkg-query --list vim-athena >> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold >> | >> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend >> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) >> ||/ Name Version Architecture Description >> +++-===================-==============-==============-============================================ >> un vim-athena <none> (no description >> available) > > What's the problem? > > u means that the action is unknown > and > n means that it's not installed
What does "unknown action" mean? And why is the output of the command different that, eg: $ dpkg-query --list vim-dbg dpkg-query: no packages found matching vim-dbg There are fundamentally two different outputs, and therefore somewhere in my system there is a different status of some sort between these two packages. I am wanting to understand what that difference is, and how it happened - why there is a difference at all. For example, I don't know how to use pinning, so I have not done any apt pinning, but using pinning, from what I've "overheard" on the lists/net is that a status change would happen for a pinned package, somwhere in the apt/dpkg "system". How come I have "unknown action" status for package vim-athena? Thank you Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnss4sp9nnhxm1bpsjgrhlmnhu6niidqc2v9kagxeb7t...@mail.gmail.com
