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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.

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 05:41:15 -0700 (MST)
Robert Holtzman <holtzm@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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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Peter Garrett wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. This is my first debian based distro and I'm still on the learning
curve.

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