Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maciej> Let me explain: of recent, I've noticed that for certain >> Maciej> (few) packages if I do "dpkg -l foo" and it produces no >> Maciej> matches/output, a subsequent "apt-get install foo" *WILL* >> Maciej> find and install the desired package. So if this package >> Maciej> exists, why isn't it listed in "dpkg -l foo"??? > >Maybe it is because the name of the package is foo_16a, not foo
If you mean the version number, that isn't part of the package name, and neither 'dpkg -l' nor apt-get thinks of it as such. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
