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Re: bug in

#16 Post by rayandrews »

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apt policy libreoffice                                   
libreoffice:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2
  Version table:
     1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2 500
        500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:5.2.7-1 500
        500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

$ dpkg -V libreoffice                                       
dpkg: package 'libreoffice' is not installed

So 'apt policy' gets it right. Anyway thanks for the list of possibilities for examining package states above.

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Re: bug in

#17 Post by rayandrews »

If you look at it that way. It seems uncharitable tho, since every other uninstalled package is reported as uninstalled, and in this one case it is not. It is the *exception* that bothers me even if you could say that aptitude why isn't really interested. Perhaps it gets off on the technicality tho.

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