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What does ii correspond to in dpkg (–list)?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in dpkg, Linux, Ubuntu

You can install packages using dpkg. dpkg is quite a useful command line tool. In addition to installing packages, dpkg also helps to remove packages and know the status of packages. While checking the status of packages using dpkg, you may come across the state ii. $ dpkg –list Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: [...]

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What does rc correspond to in dpkg (–list)?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in dpkg, Linux, Ubuntu

You can install packages using dpkg. dpkg is quite a useful command line tool. In addition to installing packages, dpkg also helps to remove packages and know the status of packages. While checking the status of packages using dpkg, you may come across the state rc. $ dpkg –list Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: [...]

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How to see the Current State of package (Ubuntu)?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in dpkg, Linux, Ubuntu

Two commands can be used to see the current state of a package. dpkg dpkg-query Let’s assume that the package vim is currently installed. Current state of a package Using dpkg dpkg –list can be used to know the status of a package. $ dpkg –list vim Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ [...]

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How to see the list of available packages in Ubuntu?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in dpkg, Linux, Ubuntu

dpkg can be used to install the packages in Ubuntu. To see the currently available packages, there is –list (-l) option. $ dpkg –list   Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name                                            Version                                         Description +++-===============================================-===============================================-============================================ ii  acpi-support                                    0.136                                           scripts for handling many ACPI events ii  acpid                                           1.0.10-5ubuntu2                                 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface e [...]

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How to view the contents of an installed Ubuntu package?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in Linux, Ubuntu

You can find out the package to which a file belongs. Similarly, you can find out the contents of a package. Let’s take the package coreutils which contains the commands like ls, mkdir, rmdir. is the syntax. Take for example Similarly, you can find out the contents of any package, if you are not sure [...]

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How to find the package to which a file belongs (Ubuntu)?

Posted by Joys of Programming on in Ubuntu

If you are working in Ubuntu/Debian, you may want to know the package to which a particular file belongs to. Take for example, you want to find out the package to which the command ‘ls’ is found. For this purpose, you must know the complete path of the command which can be found out easily [...]

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