On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:12:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 00:46, dman wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:56:36PM -0500, Darren wrote: > > | I'm looking for comments/suggestions regarding Debian on the desktop. > > > > | Since, I will be using it almost exclusively as a desktop, I'm most > > | concerned about access to current builds of my favorite packages like > > KDE3, > > | OpenOffice 1.0 & Mozilla 1.0RC2. Of course, OO and Mozilla have pretty > > good > > | installers that come with them. I'm happy with those and could use their > > | install programs. So, I guess I'm mostly concerned about KDE3. > > > > Once you have your system installed you can check the available > > versions of a package using the 'apt-cache' command. Eg : > > > > $ apt-cache show mozilla-browser > > mozilla-browser: > > Installed: 2:0.9.9-6 > > Candidate: 2:0.9.9-6 > > Version Table: > > 2:1+rc2-1 0 > > 95 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages > > *** 2:0.9.9-6 0 > > 990 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > Hmmm. That's not what happens when I type > $ apt-cache show mozilla-browser > > I get something that looks like an excerpt from a /var/lib/apt/lists > binary Packages file.
Probably a mental typo:
$ apt-cache policy mozilla-browser
^^^^^^
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