<SOLVED> apt seach xxx output = "p" (Virtual)

[cc11rocks]

apt seach xxx output = "p" (Virtual). What does this mean? I was conducting tests on ISO's for Linux Mint. One of the tests is to do "apt search $NAME". The output was "p". Does this mean it is NOT installed?

[xenopeek]

"apt search" uses aptitude. (You can check, /usr/bin/apt is just a Python script wrapping apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude, dpkg and others...)

See the manpage for aptitude, for the search action:

Each search result is listed on a separate line. The first character of each line indicates the current state of the package: the most common states are p, meaning that no trace of the package exists on the system, ...

[cc11rocks]

Thank you very much!