Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: wishlist Here we see "State: not installed" when a package is indeed installed. Apparently some other factor is interfering.
$ aptitude show libcairo2 Package: libcairo2 State: not installed Forbidden version: 1.9.4-1 Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.9.6-5 Priority: optional Section: libs Maintainer: Dave Beckett <daj...@debian.org> Uncompressed Size: 1,262k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.15.16), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxcb-render0 (>= 0), libxcb-shm0 (>= 0), libxcb1 (>= 1.2), libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Breaks: iceape-browser (<= 2.0.3-3), libgtk-directfb-2.0-0, xulrunner-1.9, xulrunner-1.9.1 (<= 1.9.1.8-3) Description: The Cairo 2D vector graphics library Cairo is a multi-platform library providing anti-aliased vector-based rendering for multiple target backends. Paths consist of line segments and cubic splines and can be rendered at any width with various join and cap styles. All colors may be specified with optional translucence (opacity/alpha) and combined using the extended Porter/Duff compositing algebra as found in the X Render Extension. Cairo exports a stateful rendering API similar in spirit to the path construction, text, and painting operators of PostScript, (with the significant addition of translucence in the imaging model). When complete, the API is intended to support the complete imaging model of PDF 1.4. This package contains the shared libraries. Homepage: http://cairographics.org/ $ apt-cache policy libcairo2 libcairo2: Installed: 1.8.8-2 Candidate: 1.9.6-5 Version table: 1.9.6-5 0 990 http://ftp.tw.debian.org experimental/main Packages 1.8.10-3 0 500 http://ftp.tw.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 1.8.8-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org