How to tell which version of a application is running

[Chris]

On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 17:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:12:59 +0200, Xen wrote:
> > 
> > [D-BUS Service]
> > Name=org.freedesktop.Tracker1
> > Exec=/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store
> > [snip]
> > Now according to DBUS /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services should take 
> > precedence over /usr/share/dbus-1/services so I don't know why it
> > was 
> > not already working [1][2].
> It seemingly worked already, "/usr/local/libexec/tracker-store" was
> launched:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:16:29 +0200, Xen wrote:
> > 
> > Ralf Mardorf schreef op 17-04-2017 16:56:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > chris at localhost:~$ ps ax -o cmd | grep [t]racker
> > > > [snip]
> > > > /usr/local/libexec/tracker-store
> > > > [snip]  
> > > 
> > > "/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-apps" OTOH is provided by the
> > > package
> > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/tracker-miner-fs .  
> > So it actually seems like... well whatever.
> > 
> > It's those other packages that are causing the issue then.
> 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.
> 
> However, before running "sudo ldconfig" it's wise to post the output
> of
> 
>   ls -ld /usr/{,local/}lib/*tracker*
> 
> just in case not only the "tracker" packages have dependencies to
> "tracker" libraries. It's better to take a look, if there's a
> possible
> soname issue.
> 
> 
Ralf, I'd run sudo ldconfig and here's the output of the command you
requested - https://pastebin.com/8CnCkyzA April 1 is the date I
installed 1.12 from source.

> 
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Chris
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