Need help with " aptitude"
Assuming if I do a aptitude search xorg and the output is as below
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have googled quite a bit but didn't have much luck. |
A simple man aptitude gave me that:
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It is explained in aptitude user's manual, which may be available on your system at /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README.
Those flags are the current state of the packages.
The author maintains aptitude user's manual online too: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/...h02s02s02.html HTH |
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BTW, man aptitude does not give you aptitude user's manual. It does mention the location of aptitude user's manual in the filesystem (at least it does on my system) in the SEE ALSO section. If aptitude user's manual is not installed on your system, then you should be able to get it from the repositories. For Ubuntu the package name is aptitude-doc. For Debian I don't know what the package name is, nor do I know whether it is installed by default. HTH |
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ade@Pc1:~$ apt-cache search aptitude-doc |
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~$ aptitude search aptitude-doc |
The "state" flag is one of the following:
v - virtual B - broken u - "unpacked" C - half-configured H - half-installed c - removed, but config-files still present (ie, not purged) i - installed E - internal error (should not happen) The "action" flag is one of the following: h - hold p - purge d - delete (remove) B - broken i - install r - reinstall u - upgrade F - the available upgrade has been forbidden via "F" If present, the "automatic" flag is "A", indicating that the package was automatically installed and will be removed when nothing depends on it. From file:///usr/share/aptitude/help.txt Which is different from man aptitude, the aptitude manual is also online at: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/...titude/doc/en/ and if the appropriate aptitude-doc package is installed at: file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/index.html |
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