What is meant by unknown, install, remove, purge and hold in the package status?
These “want” flags tell what the user wanted to do with a package (as indicated either by the user’s actions in the “Select” section of dselect, or by the user’s direct invocations of dpkg). Their meanings are: • unknown – the user has never indicated whether he wants the package • install – the user wants the package installed or upgraded • remove – the user wants the package removed, but does not want to remove any existing configuration files. • purge – the user wants the package to be removed completely, including its configuration files. • hold – the user wants this package not to be processed, i.e., he wants to keep the current version with the current status whatever that is.
