get to know upgraded pkg version

2006-01-23 Thread linux china 
Hi,
I plan to upgrade my perl 5.6to 5.8,how to query if 5.8 is available in the mirror site in a command?

Re: get to know upgraded pkg version

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West 
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:10:41 +0800
linux china [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 I plan to upgrade my perl 5.6 to 5.8, how to query if 5.8 is available in
 the mirror site in a command?
 

apt-cache policy perl 

or 

apt-cache show perl

should help you here

A


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Re: get to know upgraded pkg version

2006-01-23 Thread Andreas Janssen 
Hello

linux china ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 I plan to upgrade my perl 5.6 to 5.8, how to query if 5.8 is available
 in the mirror site in a command?

apt-cache policy packagename
man apt-cache

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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