Rolf,
Briefly as I don't have sufficient time to catch up on all these wordy emails... On 30 January 2019 at 15:18, Rolf Turner wrote: | On 1/30/19 2:03 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | Now *that* was a revealing suggestion! I did that and got: | > | | > | > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | > | > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend | > | > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) | > | > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description | > | > +++-================-=============-=============-====================================== | > | > ii r-base-core 3.5.2-1bionic amd64 GNU R core of statistical computation | > | | > | So indeed the installation had not actually been done. | > | > Why do you say that? That is the __normal__ display after a successful installation. | | I interpreted the "Status=Not/Inst ...." to mean that the package was | not installed. Which is consistent with what was actually the case. Simply false. Do 'dpkg -l | less' or 'dpkg -l somewildcardhere | less' and try to become more familiar with the output. There *is* legend printed there. What matters most: The first two columns are 'ii'. That is as official to "you're good" as you'll ever get. Again, I would consider familiarising myself with some Debian/Ubuntu/Mate/... tutorials. It's not unlike becoming familiar with S/R terminology. It will pay back. With dividends. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
