Re: How to get version information in common notation
On 10/12/2011 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Darac Marjal<mailinglist@darac.org.uk> writes:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try "dpkg -l|grep
'^i'", though I'm not entirely certain what kind of notation is
"commonly used throughout linux".
Good thanks for that tip. That's just what I was looking for.
I guess one could nitpik what is actually the accepted notation but
maybe I should have said through linux (except debian).
I think you'll find that `pkg-version' is a very typical notion
when referencing a version for communication... maybe
pkg version
would be high on the list too.
whereas
aptitude versions xorg
=> ihA 1:7.6+9 testing 500
Is not. You don't even get the pkg name together with the version at
all so copy paste becomes copy edit paste.
wtopa@dj:~$ aptitude versions xorg
i 1:7.6+9 testing,unstable 990
wtopa@dj:~$ dpkg -l xorg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xorg 1:7.6+9 X.Org X Window System
If you use the tools it looks fine to me.
Am I misunderstanding something here.
[...]
Part of the problem may be that many packages provide a number of
commands not equal to one. How would you propose finding the version of
a library or a documentation package?
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.
Surely there is a standard way to see version information at a glance
and be able to copy paste it to email or whatever in a couple of moves
instead of dinking around for 5/6 minutes to get it.
dpkg -l|grep '^i'
does that pretty nicely... thanks again.
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