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Re: Meaning of letters in aptitude output not found with ? inside aptitude



Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> Oh, sorry should have given you a few hints, since it's quite hidden: 
> see chapter 2 "aptitude reference guide", section "Managing packages", 
> sub-section "Accessing package information", specifically the paragraph 
> explaining the 'webmin' example (line 1856, 23%).

Egad... I almost had it right in my original post:  I new I'd seen it
somewhere but got to thinking auto was lower case `a'

>From hp's OP.
,----
| Uppercase A comes to mind, as in 
| 
| aptitude search ~ahold
|   [...]
|   ihA apache2.2-bin          - Apache HTTP Server common binary files
|   [...]  
| 
| Is it auto install or is that lowercase `a'?
`----

Anyway, thanks so much for doing the legwork with such precision and
making my end such a shoo-in


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