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

[Thilo Six]

Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 10.12.2007 22:31
> On 10/12/2007, Padraig <padraigrorry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  How can I check what version of a particular program apt-get will
>> install, before I

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create the the file:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99localsetting

with:
<---------------------------------------------
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions "true";
--------------------------------------------->


$ sudo aptitude install gimp

HTH
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Thilo

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