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Re: How to get version information in common notation



Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a
> pkg at:
>   http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev
> 
> It will show up with a version notation.  So I'm thinking the OS must
> have that information somewhere.

dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For
example:

dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n'

(package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous;
is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2 of foo-9?)

-- 
see shy jo

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