Re: apt-cache show (only newest package)

["Edward J. Shornock" <ed@crazeecanuck.homelinux.net>]

Bill Moseley wrote:

> This laptop was installed as a Woody, then it went through testing and 
> now unstable.  I've got sources for all in sources.list.
>
> So, when I do   
>
> 	$ apt-cache show foo 
>
> I see more than one foo package.  Can I use apt-cache to just show the 
> most current package -- or really, the package that would get installed 
> with apt-get install foo?
>  


For example:

$ apt-cache policy gcc
gcc:
 Installed: 4:3.3.2-2
 Candidate: 4:3.3.2-2
 Version Table:
*** 4:3.3.2-2 0
       650 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages
       500 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk testing/main Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    2:2.95.4-14 0
       500 http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu stable/main Packages

HTH, and hope this is what you're looking for.