Re: problem searching packages

[Timothy Musson <trmusson@ihug.co.nz>]

Bernard wrote:
> With RedHat "rpm", I could find very easily
> whether a package was installed or not, what was the version number etc..
> With Debian, I have not yet found the way to go [...]
> 
> #apt-cache search package_name
> 
> gives me some information on said package, but not the version number.

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet:

  dpkg --status <packagename>

A couple more lines worth noting:

  apt-cache search --names-only <pattern>
  apt-cache show <package>


Tim
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