Thanks, Brian, that's it! Works for aptitude too! On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM, <bri...@aracnet.com> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:59:28 -0600 > Keith Christian <keith1christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On a Wheezy system, I have used aptitude exclusively for >> updates/upgrades, etc. Looking for a command line option to use with >> aptitude to check whether updates are available for a single arbitrary >> package, e.g. "debian-reference-en" for example. > > ~$ apt-get -s install yelp > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > yelp is already the newest version. > yelp set to manually installed. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 609 not upgraded. > > > I think that's what you are looking for. > > The -s option is "simulate". > > Brian
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