How to check what version of a package is available in the current ubuntu?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 12.02.2010, 11:44 -0600 schrieb Peng Yu:
> > as you can see on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash version 3.2
> > is in jaunty while 4.0 is in karmic ...
> 
> I have the following output.
> 
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
> Release:	8.04
> Codename:	hardy
> 
> If my machine is jaunty, there is no way to update bash to the latest
> version by apt-get?
> 
well, as you can see your machine is hardy (8.04) so you have the latest
bash thats available for your release, you would have to upgrade to a
newer release to get a newer bash (see
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading for such a step, note that you
can only upgrade release by release (i.e. 8.04->8.10->9.04->9.10 ...)
unless you upgrade from one LTS release to another (there is no newer
LTS than hardy currently, the next LTS will be released end of april)).

ciao
	oli


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