[ubuntu-us-ma] How to tell version numbers?

[Brian DeLacey]

Thanks Brian and Daniel for your ideas ... what you described worked in a
helpful way.
The search continues for the best way to track Ubuntu / Jaunty individual
build/release numbers. I'll post it when I find out.

Brian


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 1) I've no idea
> 2) apt-cache policy package_name  will show you the version of a package
> installed.  Maybe you want to look at the changelog of the package that
> holds your drivers?
> 3) yes, approximately.  But, sometimes there are errors with dependencies.
> I think ideally, its yes.
>
> Dan
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to track and view version numbers of the Ubuntu
>> releases installed on your machine? In particular, I'm wondering:
>>
>>
>>    - how to display release numbers that will differentiate between daily
>>    Jaunty builds?
>>    - how to display the version of subsystems / tarballs in the distro?
>>    (I'm particularly interested in wireless drivers, e.g. compat-wireless-2.6
>>    tarball<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download#Archiveofcompat-wireless-2.6tarballs>
>>    )?
>>    - does running update manager on an installed Jaunty build has
>>    (aproximately) the same result as installing the new daily Jaunty build
>>    available that day?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>    Brian
>>
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