dpkg

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Package System Information Options

 s |   status 

This option delivers the status information, contained in the entry for the

package named, from the status database. Much useful information about

the package can be obtained from this display in addition to the installation

status. Among them, the version of the package, its maintainer, and a brief

description of the package. For instance, the command:

dpkg  s mc

will produce the output:

Package:

mc

Status:

install ok installed

Priority:

optional

Section:

utils

Maintainer:

Fernando Alegre 

Version:

3.2.1 1

Depends:

libc5, ncurses3.0, ncurses base

Suggests:

gpm

Conffiles:

/etc/mc/mc.ext 6e672da6b5961ba9125e11824fcb2fef

/etc/mc/mc.ini d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

/etc/mc/mc.lib fcdd319ffefa2a9cb4b7a5fa3ccad72d

/etc/mc/mc.menu 4be9e09f0728f993fc468b98db403be0

Description:

Midnight Commander   A feature rich full screen file

manager.

Midnight Commander is a feature rich file manager.

It has

mouse support in a Linux console and in an xterm.

It started as a Norton

Commander clone but now it has new features on it's own.

It does not use libncurses, but it uses the terminfo database.

Support

for XView and TCL/Tk is available, but it is still experimental.

It is

not included in the current binary.