[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11

[Doc Nielsen]

And the big question is: is tuxkart fun? more fun than tuxracer? 

- Doc
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In response to:

        
        On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:14:11AM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
        > OK, I've studied the docs and the man pages, and I swear this
        is still a big 
        > mystery. Please o gurus, what do these lines mean:
        
        > 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)
        
        These lines are a key to the actual information, and are
        supposed to
        point to the columns below.  The first column is what is
        "Desired",
        the second column is the actual "Status", and the third column
        tells
        you whether there were any errors.
        
        The letters in the Desired column could mean unknown (indicated
        by
        'u'), install (indicated by 'i'), etc...
        
        > And what is their relationship to
        > 
        > ||/ Name               Version            Description
        > +++-==================-==================-====
        > ii  tuxkart            0.2.0-3            A 3D go-kart racing
        game.
        
        You want it to be Installed, it is Installed, and there are no
        errors.
        
        You'll also see rc (Desired=r, Status=c) if you remove packages
        but do
        not purge them; that means that you wanted the package removed,
        so
        everything except for the config files have been removed.
        
        Other states are less likely.. they'll happen if there are
        errors, or
        during an apt-get.
        
        -- 
        laurel at sdf.lonestar.org
        http://dreadnought.gorgorg.org