On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 04:13:43 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [...]
> I have no idea what the first > three lines of the dpkg -l output below are trying to tell me. > > > :/# dpkg -l postfix > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== The header of the dpkg -l output tells you how to interpret the first three characters in the listing for each package. The pipes and slashes are meant as ascii art lines to indicate which position corresponds to which line in the legend; the uppercase letters in the legend tell you which character will be used as an abbreviation. In your example: > ii postfix 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance > mail transport agent "ii " means Desired=Install, Status=Installed, Error=none; this is the normal output for properly installed packages and easy to remember, but if you need to understand less common cases then it is helpful to have the legend included in the output. -- Regards, | Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org