package installation

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 05:41:15 -0700 (MST)
Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

> I installed alpine-dbg using apt-get install alpine-dbg. Everything looked 
> O.K. but when I ran dpkg -l alpine-dbg I got:
> 
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad
> 
> Can someone explain what is going on? Thanks.

That output is always there when you run dpkg -l <package>

The relevant lines follow that. and should begin with " ii " if the package
is correctly installed. So, as an example, 

dpkg -l sylpheed

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
++
+-==============-==============-============================================
ii  sylpheed       2.4.7-1        sylpheed is a fast mail client using gtk-2

Shows that "sylpheed" is properly installed on my machine.

Peter

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