On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:48:41AM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> Other handy features:
>
> apt-cache show pkgname
> apt-cache search srchterm
And a few more:
apt-cache policy pkgname
This tells you:
- the current installed version
- the "candidate" version that would be installed
- a list of all the available versions (usually only one or
two unless you've configured extra apt sources beyond the
main 'stable' or 'testing' and ithe security updates).
for the given package.
apt-show-versions -u
This lists all packages that could be upgraded, with version
numbers of current and candidate. This isn't available by
default -- you'll need to "apt-get install apt-show-versions" to
get it.
dpkg -L pkgname
This lists all files provided by the given package.
I'm sure there's a FAQ somewhere with things like this, but I don't
recall where I saw it.
Cheers,
Dave