Andrei Popescu put forth on 12/30/2009 3:41 AM: > I prefer to ask dpkg about installed packages, it should know best ;)
I find the aptitude show results more useful. 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 +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== ii postfix 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport agent :/# aptitude show postfix Package: postfix State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.5.5-1.1 Priority: extra Section: mail Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lam...@debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 2793k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libdb4.6, libsasl2-2, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, netbase, adduser (>= 3.48), dpkg (>= 1.8.3), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), ssl-cert Suggests: procmail, postfix-mysql, postfix-pgsql, postfix-ldap, postfix-pcre, sasl2-bin, libsasl2-modules, resolvconf, postfix-cdb, mail-reader, ufw Conflicts: libnss-db (< 2.2-3), mail-transport-agent, postfix-tls, smail Replaces: mail-transport-agent, postfix-tls Provides: mail-transport-agent, postfix-tls Description: High-performance mail transport agent Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org