Re: Correct terminology of an "extracted, not installed" binary package

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Number Six (<40311.nospam@comcast.net>) wrote:

> If I have run "dpkg -x foo.deb .",
> 
> would I describe the package as
> 
> a) uninstalled
> b) unpacked and uninstalled
> c) extracted and uninstalled
> d) extracted
> 
> I think "unpacked" has a specific meaning (the state it's in during an
> installation) so it's not b, but I'm not sureed.
> 
> Is "extracted" a common term?

>From the dpkg-deb man page:

--extract, -x, --vextract, -X
              Extracts the filesystem tree from a package archive
              into the specified directory.

So I would say "extracted" is the appropriate term.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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