how to read aptitude output

[Harry Putnam]

Christian Schult <cschult at gmx.de> writes:

> Hello Harry,
>
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> can anyone point me to a cheat sheet or the like for understanding
>> `aptitude' ouput.
>> 
>> I grepped the man page on ouput but found nothing of interest.
>> I really don't want to read all 900+ lines to find out what the the
>> letters at the beginning of the lines mean.
>> 
>> Yeah `i' is self explanatory... but thats about it.
>> 
>> What does `c' or `u' mean... is there a list somewhere that tells what
>> they all mean?
>
> You can run aptitude, press F1 or ? and scroll to the bottom.

Thanks, its always so embarringly simple when you see the clue.