dpkg quivalent to rpm -q

[david]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:20 +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> On Thursday 13 of January 2005 17:06, david wrote:
> 
> > rpm -q evolution
> > evolution-1.4.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> 
>  I should give you a hint, how to use it with grep. Here we go.
> 
> emil at rohan:~$ apt-cache show evolution | grep Version:
> Version: 2.0.3-1.1
> emil at rohan:~$ apt-cache show evolution | grep Filename: 
> Filename: pool/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.3-1.1_i386.deb
> 

Wow, incredible response. Thankyou!

dpkg-query -s was exactly what I was looking for. 
And apt-cache show xxx shows similar results.

As always, more than 1 way up the mountain.

thanks again

David