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and subject line Re: aptitude: "show" says an installed package is not installed
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.5.3.1-1

Here we see aptitude says ("!!!" below) that a installed package is "not 
installed".

# set sysv-rc
# apt-cache policy $@
sysv-rc:
  Installed: 2.87dsf-1
  Candidate: 2.87dsf-2
  Version table:
     2.87dsf-2 0
        500 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw unstable/main Packages
 *** 2.87dsf-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# aptitude show $@
Unable to find an archive "experimental" for the package "sysv-rc"
Package: sysv-rc
State: not installed <---------------!!!
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.87dsf-2
Priority: required
Section: admin
Maintainer: Debian sysvinit maintainers 
<[email protected]>
Uncompressed Size: 274k
Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.86.ds1-62), insserv (>= 1.12.0-10)
Recommends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Suggests: sysv-rc-conf, bum
Conflicts: file-rc
Replaces: file-rc
Description: System-V-like runlevel change mechanism
 This package provides support for the System-V like system for booting, 
shutting down and changing runlevels,
 configured through symbolic links in /etc/rc?.d/.
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysvinit/
# aptitude install $@
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  insserv{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  sysv-rc
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 142kB of archives. After unpacking 295kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw unstable/main insserv 1.12.0-10 [70.7kB]
Get:2 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw unstable/main sysv-rc 2.87dsf-2 [70.9kB]
# aptitude show $@
Unable to find an archive "experimental" for the package "sysv-rc"
Package: sysv-rc
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.87dsf-2
Priority: required
Section: admin...



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# aptitude show $(aptitude search '~U' -F '%p') | grep ^State | uniq -c
     36 State: installed
OK maybe it is fixed now. Closing.

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