Hello Harry Putnam, not sure, what you really mean. Do you mean this ?:
lsb_release -a as command ? Try it as user. Happy Hacking. Greetings. dschinn cv.deb...@gmail.com 2011/10/12 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> > 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 > >
