Re: newbie package question
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:26:30 -0400, Seneca 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)?
>
> apt-cache policy foo
> dpkg -l foo
> zcat /usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz | \
> sed -n -e 's/^[^\x28]*[\x28]//' -e 's/\x29.*//' -e '1p'
$ COLUMNS=500 dpkg -l | awk '{print $1 " " $2 "_" $3 "\n" }' | grep libc
ii glibc-doc_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libc6_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libcap1_1.10-14
ii libcdparanoia0_3a9.8-11
ii libcomerr2_1.35-6
ii libconsole_0.2.3dbs-54
ii libcroco2_0.5.1-1
ii libcupsimage2_1.1.20final+rc1-3
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10_1.1.20final+rc1-3
ii libcurl2_7.11.2-1
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