App version & installed?

[Grizzly]

20 September 2018  at 22:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Re: App version & installed? (at least in part)

>On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:08:59 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>Does this show apps I have installed or that are in the latest
>>(updated) repository, that "could" be installed (with apt install ...)
>
>One of the examples I already provided:

Thanks, I had missed that, so I still have the same issue, 

i.e.
I have Wine installed and working, but "all" the commands I know do not show it 
as such, the same for VLC and others

they do show as Candidates "to be installed"