Hi, I always thought that 'dpkg -l' was supposed to show you all *installed* packages, but, when I do a: dpkg -l 'ncurses*' on my system, I get:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=bDesired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ un ncurses <unknown> (no description available) ii ncurses-base 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of ii ncurses-bin 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: associated prog un ncurses-dev <unknown> (no description available) un ncurses-develop <unknown> (no description available) un ncurses-pic <unknown> (no description available) un ncurses-runtime <unknown> (no description available) ii ncurses-term 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: additional term un ncurses21-dev <unknown> (no description available) ii ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: shared Of these packages, all with a version of <unknown> are not installed, and I don't want these to show up either. They're confusing me. What can I do about this? Maarten _______________________________________________________________________ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Take life as a party! | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
