Question

5

What is aptitude's extended state information

rated 0 times [ 5] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 3516 / 3 Years ago, sat, september 25, 2021, 11:44:06

I have both apt-get and aptitude installed on my system. When I am performing any operation using aptitude, I see Reading extended state information and Writing extended state information. These messages are not present with apt-get. What state information is aptitude reading that apt-get is not?

Answers

Only authorized users can answer the question. Please sign in first, or register a free account.

piscen

Add To Favorites

Follow

Total Points: 134

Total Questions: 117

Total Answers: 133

Location: Indonesia

Member since Wed, Jul 7, 2021

3 Years ago

piscen questions

1 Install Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 ARM64 on macOS Apple Silicon (M1/Pro/Max) in Parallels

Fri, May 19, 23, 07:27, 1 Year ago

1 Unable to locate package openal-soft

Sun, Oct 23, 22, 16:06, 2 Years ago

1 Run dockerd as a background on WSL Ubuntu

Wed, May 17, 23, 01:44, 1 Year ago

1 Does Ubuntu have a MS Office equivalent?

Thu, Nov 24, 22, 19:09, 2 Years ago

1 How to remove all traces of python from Ubuntu

Mon, Mar 6, 23, 02:42, 1 Year ago

View All

answered 3 Years ago izecaptur · Accepted Answer

I believe the extended state information is stored in /var/lib/apt/extended_states. Looking at the file on my machine, it stores the architecture for each installed package and whether or not those packages were installed manually or automatically (i.e. as a dependency of another package).