On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:37:07PM -0400, Tong wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:44:27 +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:28:11PM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote:
> >> How can I find out what version of a package I have currently installed (e.g., glibc)?
>
> Yeah, I wanted to know that too.
>
> > dpkg -l|grep libc
>
> This is a solution, but not perfect, 'cause sometimes the package name
> gets truncated, e.g.:
Hi Tong,
here is the answer to the 'truncation'.
doing:
COLUMNS=139 dpkg -l
this sets the env var COLUMNS temporarity to 139 for this command.
-Kev
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