How can I quickly get version information for packages I have installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux.
Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get versions', which is not suitable for copy/paste: ,---- | aptitude versions xorg | ihA 1:7.6+9 testing 500 `---- I mean like `pkg-version' Or at least something like what X and many other packages will output: X -version X.Org X Server 1.11.1 But not all packages are so kind and not all use the same cmdline switch so you end up wasting time trying a few or `man pkg' to see if it even has such a flag. 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. And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in fact. The list is posted at the end. And how can I tell quickly which are needed? And which can be removed? `ps wwaux|grep xserver-xorg' Would seem to indicate that none are running... but of course with X and kde running... that can't be the case. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- aptitude search xserver-xorg|grep ^i|wc -l 37 aptitude search xserver-xorg|grep ^i ihA xserver-xorg i A xserver-xorg-core core server ihA xserver-xorg-input-all input driver metapackage i A xserver-xorg-input-evdev evdev input driver i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics d driver for X.Org server i A xserver-xorg-input-wacom Wacom input driver ihA xserver-xorg-video-all output driver metapackag i A xserver-xorg-video-apm APM display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-ark ark display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-ati AMD/ATI display driver w i A xserver-xorg-video-chips Chips display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-cirrus Cirrus display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-fbdev fbdev display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-geode Geode GX2/LX display dri i A xserver-xorg-video-i128 i128 display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-i740 i740 display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-intel Intel i8xx, i9xx display i A xserver-xorg-video-mach64 ATI Mach64 display drive i A xserver-xorg-video-mga MGA display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-neomagic Neomagic display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Nouveau display driver ( i A xserver-xorg-video-openchrome VIA display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-r128 ATI r128 display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-radeon AMD/ATI Radeon display d i A xserver-xorg-video-rendition Rendition display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-s3 legacy S3 display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-s3virge S3 ViRGE display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-savage Savage display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotio SiliconMotion display dr i A xserver-xorg-video-sis SiS display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-sisusb SiS USB display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-tdfx tdfx display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-trident Trident display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-tseng Tseng display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa VESA display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-vmware VMware display driver i A xserver-xorg-video-voodoo Voodoo display driver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkh6gtfk....@newsguy.com
