Comment 6 for bug 842564

This is still the case in 14.04, fresh install.

The package state is installed:
# dpkg -l libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
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 Architecture Description
+++-=====================================================-===============================-===============================-================================================================================================================
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a:amd64 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu1 amd64 C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libraries)

But the files are all missing:
# dpkg -L libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a | xargs -n 1 ls -lad
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Feb 10 22:07 /.
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 26 23:12 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 188 root root 24576 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x 84 root root 69632 Feb 12 01:31 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0: No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-x 298 root root 12288 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/share
drwxr-xr-x 1910 root root 69632 Feb 12 22:58 /usr/share/doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 26 23:47 /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/copyright: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/AUTHORS: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/NEWS.gz: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/README: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a/changelog.Debian.gz: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: No such file or directory