Re: dpkg-query - package "un"packed, no version ???

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2013-09-02, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Where or how do you get "no package description" for those packages?
>>> What command are you using?
>>
>> dpkg -l
>
> curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -l vim-dbg
> No packages found matching vim-dbg.
> curty@einstein:~$ dpkg-query --list vim-dbg
> No packages found matching vim-dbg.
>
> curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -l vim-doc
> 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              Description
> +++-====================-====================-============================
> un  vim-doc              <none>               (no description available)
>
> I don't understand as you're not cutting and pasting you're output.  You're not
> getting the same output as me apparently.

Because I'm not on a Debian box.