On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:19:01PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: | Hi folks, | | Kindly advise how to find out the version of a package available to upgrade/ | install. I am not quite clear on man apt-cache. I tried follows without | result; | | # apt-cache -v firebird | E: Invalid operation firebird apt-cache policy firebird (the 'show' operation gives much more detail than the version number, and doesn't display which version is in which release if you have more than one in your sources list) -D -- If Microsoft would build a car... ... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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