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". > > 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. 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? > > 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. > -- Darac Marjal
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