On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:27:24AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/09/05 12:26), Simo Kauppi wrote: > > Is there an easy way to search for packages which are installed and have > > more than one version available to see which version is currently > > installed? > > > > The reason for asking is that I just accidentally noticed that > > php4-common, libapache2-mod-php4 and php4-mysql had a newer version in > > security-updates but they had not been automatically upgraded. Manually > > installing the newer versions of those had no problems. > > > > I would like to find out if I have more packages which would have a > > newer version available but haven't been upgraded. > > > > I'm using Debian etch AMD64. > > dpkg -l | grep ii > > will show everything installed on your system That it does. > apt-cache search <package> [or part name] > > will show you available packages Yes but without the version numbers > See man dpkg and man apt-cache That's what I did but couldn't find any options which would give me a nice list like: Package_name version_installed versions_available > If you using aptitude, and you run update then upgrade, it will normally > install the latest package version available That's what I thought, hence the surprise when I noticed that those packages were not upgraded :( I'm not sure if there is any difference working in command line or in visual mode. I did the update - upgrade in visual mode. > Regards > > Clive > > > -- > www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... > ...strategies for business I thought somebody might already have a shell script, which would get the names of the installed packages and list the versions available for them... (just so I wouldn't need to write it myself :) Well actually I did write a little script to find out the latest versions. The only problem now is wheter 'dpkg -l package-name' shows the actual installed version? I'm a little suspicious because 'aptitude show package-name' shows the highest available version instead of the actual installed version. Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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