How to tell which version of a application is running

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Ralf Mardorf schreef op 17-04-2017 17:32:

> It seemingly worked already, "/usr/local/libexec/tracker-store" was
> launched:

Agreed.

I think the OP did not have equivalents for the other applications 
(libraries) installed?

They too, got started, apparently.

The package you mentioned also contains:

/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop

Which pointed to the service files which pointed to all those libraries 
(binaries).

> I wonder if the OP did run
> 
>   sudo ldconfig
> 
> after installing the local libraries, perhaps this is all that needs to
> be done. If the linker doesn't know, that there are new libraries, then
> even if libraries from local/lib/ should be preferred over those
> from lib/, aren't used.

But they aren't libraries. They are just other binaries (executables) 
sitting in /usr/lib.

>   ls -ld /usr/{,local/}lib/*tracker*

It would show what he actually did install in /usr/local at least.