Hi. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:35:56PM +0200, aprekates wrote: > Looking at dpkg -l output i noticed: > > ii binutils 2.31.1-16 amd64 GNU assembler, linker and binary > utilities > ii binutils-common:amd64 2.31.1-16 amd64 Common files for the > GNU assembler, .. > > why dpkg -l adds the :arch prefix in some package names and not in others?
If a package has "Multiarch: same" flag (binutils-common is one of these) it means it can be installed several times with the different architectures. dpkg shows such packages with architecture suffix (not _prefix_), to help the user distinguish packages with the same name, but different architectures. Packages that has "Multiarch: foreign" (i.e. architecture-independent ones), or packages that lack Multiarch flag are shown without architecture suffix. "apt show" does not show Multiarch flag for some reason, but "dpkg -s" does. Reco
