package installation

[Robert Holtzman]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Peter Garrett wrote:

> That output is always there when you run dpkg -l <package>
>
> The relevant lines follow that. and should begin with " ii " if the package
> is correctly installed. So, as an example,
>
> dpkg -l sylpheed
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | 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
> ++
> +-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  sylpheed       2.4.7-1        sylpheed is a fast mail client using gtk-2
>
> Shows that "sylpheed" is properly installed on my machine.

Thanks. This is my first debian based distro and I'm still on the learning 
curve.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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