On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:26:31PM +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I would like to find out if I have more packages which would have a > newer version available but haven't been upgraded.
Run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. [Or dist-upgrade instead of
upgrade or aptitude instead of apt-get, but those are details.]
To inspect an individual package, do: apt-cache policy <package name>.
For example:
$ apt-cache policy tmpreaper
tmpreaper:
Installed: 1.6.5
Candidate: 1.6.5
Version Table:
*** 1.6.5 0
500 ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The important lines are 'installed' and 'candidate'. This one doesn't
need to be upgraded.
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