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Re: problem: kword in testing



on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:25:28AM -0800, Hunter Marshall (hmarshall@viasat.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:21:01AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:32:26AM -0800, Hunter Marshall
> > (hmarshall@viasat.com) wrote:
> > > I have included the output of dpkg -l to waste bandwidth.  :-)
> > 
> > Yes, you have.
> > 
> >     $ dpkg -s kword 
> > 
> > ...will show relevent information on just kword. 
> 
> Not sure you intended to be as dismissive as you seemed, but my intent
> in including a dpkg -l listing was to record the state of my system
> with regard to which packages were present on the system, satisfying
> the required dependencies. My experience is that reporting problems
> without some detail is akin to singing the blues, it doesn't really
> help solve the problem.

The command I gave will also show dependencies for kword.  You can then
list status of these dependended-on packages.  Listing your entire
system configuration is unnecessary. 

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