dpkg-query command line should specify postfix, not mc (page 148)
More...Reported on: 2005-09-02
In chapter 5. The Debian package management system on page 148:
The example displaying the use of the --showformat option to dpkg-query should obviously be:
# dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\t${Status}\n' postfix
postfix install ok installed
In the book, it unfortunately specifies mc as the last argument in the command line. I had previously used mc as an example, but switched almost all examples over to postfix as a tribute to my favourite mail server, and its author, Wietse Venema.