On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:26 -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:43:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > > > > What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. > > > > The -number is the Debian patchlevel: major.minor.patch-debpatch > > > So in > linux-image-2.6.17-2-486_2.6.17-9_i386.deb It is Linux Image 2.6.17-2-486 (that is the package name) Version is 2.6.17-9 (basically the source version) for the i386 architecture. Hope that helps. Here is the DPKG output(sorry for the LONG LINES (made as short as possible) greg@princess:~$ dpkg -l \ linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 \ linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 \ linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=========================-==========-====================================== ii linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 2.6.18-3 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 ii linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 2.6.18-5 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 ii linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7 2.6.18-8 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 So you can see what I am talking about, I just did a dpkg -l -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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