In my case both:
$ dpkg -l w*
and
$ dpkg -l 'w*'
will report the same list
# dpkg -l w*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
un w-bassman <none> <none> (no
description available)
un w3m <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wajig <none> <none> (no
description available)
ii wamerican 7.1-1 all
American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
un watch <none> <none> (no
description available)
un wbritish <none> <none> (no
description available)
un wdiff <none> <none> (no
description available)
un wesnoth-1.12-core <none> <none>
(no description available)
ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2
amd64 retrieves files from the web
un wget-ssl <none> <none> (no
description available)
ii whiptail 0.52.19-1+b1
amd64 Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell
scripts
un whiptail-utf8 <none> <none> (no
description available)
un whois <none> <none> (no
description available)
un widelands <none> <none> (no
description available)
un wink <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wordlist <none> <none> (no
description available)
un www-browser <none> <none> (no
description available)
On 22/12/18 1:07 π.μ., Dan Ritter wrote:
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On 21 de dezembro de 2018 20:24, aprekates wrote:
In a new installed system with Debian 9.6
$ dpkg -l
will list only packages with 'ii' state and a couple of 'rc'.
But if i run:
$ dpkg -l w*
i will get a dozen also of 'un' packages.
So i dont understand the logic of altering the output when
i use a pattern . I would expect to see only 'ii' packages starting
from the letter 'w' .
Also i dont understand why in a new system dpkg would know
anything about uninstalled packages!
dpkg -l w*
will be expanded by the shell (if there is any file starting with w in the
current directory).
Have you tried
dpkg -l 'w*'
Let's see:
dpkg -l w*
dpkg-query: no packages found matching webplot.txt
dpkg -l 'w*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un w-bassman <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii w3m 0.5.3-34+deb amd64 WWW browsable pager
with excellen
un w3m-el <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3m-img <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3m-ssl <none> <none> (no description
available)
un w3mmee <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wacom-tools <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wajig <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii wamerican 7.1-1 all American English
dictionary words
un watch <none> <none> (no description
available)
un watchdog <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wbritish <none> <none> (no description
available)
un wdiff <none> <none> (no description
available)
....
-dsr-
