Re: question about "dpkg -l"
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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:03 pm, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:48:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> | What do ii & ri mean in the 1st column of the dpkg output?
>
> You snipped it out :
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-ins
> |talled / Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
> | (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> |
> ||/ Name Version Description
>
>
> +++-==============-==============-===================================
>
> | ii xlibs 4.1.0-9 X Window System client libraries
> | rc vim-rt 5.6.070-1 Vi IMproved - runtime support
> | ri a2ps 4.13-2 GNU a2ps 'Anything to
> | PostScript'
>
> Now, what do those headings tell you? :-)
>
> The first column is the desired status the second one is the current
> status and the third is the error status.
>
> | "man dpkg" isn't very specific. Does it have to do with PACKAGE
> | SELECTION STATES "install" & "reinst-required"? Then what would
> | rc mean?
>
> You want to remove it but the config files are still on the system.
Ahh. Thanks.
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