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

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Dec 11 15:57:52 UTC 2007


Peter Garrett wrote:

> There must be a story behind "madison" - it seems pretty obscure! ;-)

"apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and a
subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool,
madison." (man!)

Of course, why Debian called their tool madison...
-- 
derek





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