On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:01:26PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: [...] > How (exactly) do I find out the version (I have to suspect its the latest > version, I installed last night). I tried:
The standard method to obtain the installed version is 'dpkg -l <packagename>' (sparse display) or 'dpkg -s <packagename>' (detailed display). Either way you will get the package version number, which is the program's relese number, hyphen, and Debian revision number. Example: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===================-===================-====================================================== ii groff 1.17-3 GNU troff text-formatting system Here we have the third revision of the Debian package of groff compiled from the official groff 1.17 tarball as released by the author (GNU). -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
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