Apt-get: how to check version number before installation?

[Thilo Six]

Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 10.12.2007 22:31

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> feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get search gimp
> E: Invalid operation search
> feisty at feisty-laptop:~$

sudo is not needed for "searching only" tasks.

$ apt-cache policy gimp
(espacilly usefull if you would like to know from where it would be installed)

$ aptitude show gimp
(more verbose)


> Dotan Cohen


HTH
-- 
Thilo

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