Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:54:38 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 10/13/07, Giorgos Pallas wrote:
> > Hello to everybody!
> >
> > When I was using synaptic, I remember that it showed the version changes
> > for every packet that was to be upgraded.
> >
> > Where exactly is this information hidden? How can I see it using
> > aptitude, or maybe another command-line tool? I searched the internet
> > but I can't seem to find something...
> 
> Do you want to see the current version number of the packages and the
> new version number? You can see that by using aptitude in interactive
> mode (invoke "aptitude" instead of "aptitude upgrade").

Non-interactive search should also work:

aptitude -F '%p %v %V' search '~U'

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