Apt-get: how to know what version will be installed?

Avi Greenbury avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 31 15:56:16 UTC 2008


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Before installing an application with apt-get, I would like to check
> which version will be installed. How does one do that?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

The top few lines of
apt-cache showpkg <package name>
give version information.

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