What do these 'apt search' codes mean?

[pattonia]

While doing a search to find if I have a package installed, I find these single-letter codes in the leftmost column; what do they mean? Where might I find a complete listing of them? The apt manpage doesn't seem to describe them.

Code: Select all

> sudo apt search geos
p   geos-bin                                                                                                       - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - Utilities                                                           
p   libgeos++-dev                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for GIS - C++ development files                                                                          
p   libgeos-3.8.0                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
p   libgeos-3.8.1                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
p   libgeos-3.9.0                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
p   libgeos-3.9.1                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
i   libgeos-c1v5                                                                                                   - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C Library                                                           
i   libgeos-dev                                                                                                    - Geometry engine for GIS - Development files                                                                              
p   libgeos-doc                                                                                                    - Documentation for the GEOS GIS geometry engine library                                                                   
p   libgeos3.10.1                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
i A libgeos3.10.2                                                                                                  - Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library                                                         
p   php-geos                                                                                                       - GEOS bindings for PHP                                                                                                    
p   r-cran-geosphere                                                                                               - GNU R Spherical Trigonometry

[zcot]

In your example, p means this is an available package, not installed.

i means that one is installed.

the i A one was Automatically installed, almost certainly because one of those other packages, and most likely the first one.

You can find the info digging through the man pages starting with apt-get and continuing through about 4 other tools. I think man aptitude has the most complete, incomplete listing. lol

you can just check here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apti ... 02.en.html

[pattonia]

In your example, p means this is an available package, not installed.

i means that one is installed.

the i A one was Automatically installed, almost certainly because one of those other packages, and most likely the first one.

You can find the info digging through the man pages starting with apt-get and continuing through about 4 other tools. I think man aptitude has the most complete, incomplete listing. lol

you can just check here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apti ... 02.en.html

Thanks very much for the reply!