>  Well after this is completed I check using $
> dpkg -l | egrep ^ii to see how things went. Well - - - I have a huge list
> conprising most of any useful package that is listed as ii - - -
> incompletely installed and incompletely configured.

ii does not mean that.

https://linuxprograms.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/status-dpkg-list/

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dpkg-query.1.html

The first i means action Install
The second i means status Installed.

Nothing to worry about.

	Andrew