Here, by default both apt-cache and aptitude search for a package on whole list of packages in repository, but output of aptitude shows whether the package is installed on the system or not by giving a per-package flag which here is 'p' indicating that package is present but not installed and 'i' which indicates that the package is installed, whereas apt-cache just lists the package and its one-line detail without telling if package is installed or not.
deviation deÂ·viÂ·aÂ·tion (dÄ'vÄ-Ä'shÉn) n. A turning away or aside from a normal course. An abnormality. Deviant behavior or attitudes. The difference, especially the absolute difference, between one number in a set and the mean of the set.
A deviation that is a difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity of interest (such as a population mean) is an error and a deviation that is the difference between the observed value and an estimate of the true value (such an estimate may be a sample mean) is a residual.tatistics of the distribution of deviations are used as measures of statistical dispersion. 1  Standard deviation is the frequently used measure of dispersion: it uses squared deviations, and has desirable properties, but is not robust.