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

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Fri Oct 31 20:49:33 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:16 +0200, 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?

On the command line, use "apt-cache policy <package>". Dunno about the
GUI tools





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