On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:37:07PM -0400, Tong wrote:
> I vaguely remember that apt-get has the ability to report version
> numbers by reading its man page, but I can be quite wrong...
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $3}'
Will give you the version. As for apt-get, well:
apt-get showpkg <foo>
was probably what you were thinking of, no?
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