Re: O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 20:50 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018 13:06:37 -0400 Greg Wooledge said:
>
> > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:29:53AM +0000, John Horne wrote:
> > > dpkg -p nodejs
> > > ...
> > > Version: 0.10.37-1chl1~lucid1
> > >
> > > nodejs -v
> > > v4.8.2
> >
> > You probably have nodejs installed locally, outside of the packaging
> > system. What does "type -a nodejs" tell you (in bash)?
>
> ~$ apt-cache policy nodejs
>
> might give a more complete view.
>
the output for this shows:
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nodejs:
Installed: 4.8.2~dfsg-1
Candidate: 4.8.2~dfsg-1
Version table:
*** 4.8.2~dfsg-1 500
500 http://http.debian.net/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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I also tried 'dpkg -s' as you suggested. The output was:
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Package: nodejs
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 13928
Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers <pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.de
bian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.8.2~dfsg-1
...
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John.
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John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services
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