How to tell which version of a application is running

[Chris]

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 07:12 -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 19:45 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 09:30 +0200, Xen wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regardless to then give credit to the other person that not only 
> > > responds after me but who responds an hour later with basically
> > > the
> > > same suggestion (that might even have not worked if direct links
> > > were
> > > used) but which in all respects does the same thing, is just a
> > > bit...
> > Sorry Xen; there was no intention to steal your thunder. It happens
> > OFTEN in this list that someone posts the the same advice as an
> > earlier
> > poster. In my case it sometimes happens because of how long it
> > takes
> > me
> > to write the email! By the time I hit "send" three other people
> > have
> > answered...
> > 
> > Several people offering similar answers is not always bad. The
> > recipient can "get the message" better, or choose from different
> > methods of achieving the same thing. But it's not always going to
> > be
> > clear to the recipient that the answers are technically equivalent.
> > 
> > I doubt there was any malice in the OP's choice of which solution
> > to
> > apply, nor in his choice of whom to thank.
> > 
> > So untwist your knickers and smile - collectively we have solved
> > someone's problem, and that's a good thing.
> > 
> > Regards, K.
> > 
> First, if I'm pissing anyone off by replying to Karl's post I
> apologize, it just the one I clicked 'reply' on. Everyone here has
> given me so many fixes, work arounds and other ways to fix this issue
> that I get totally confused as to who said what, when. So if I went
> and
> ran with Karl's idea but Xen posted it first Xen, I humbly apologize
> for not using yours. 
> 
> Not to sound petty but I have way too many things going on in my life
> right now such as possibly going blind than to worry about who's idea
> to fix an issue I tried first. Again, I'm not intending to piss
> anyone
> off and don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the replies and
> suggestions. 
> 
> Chris
> 
Adding to my post, I want to publicly thank Xen for a solution he sent
me privately. All I really had to do is add the Yakkety main universe
sources to /etc/apt/sources.list. Run sudo apt update and when done
sudo apt install tracker and I'm now running 

apt-cache policy tracker
tracker:
  Installed: 1.10.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.10.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.10.0-1ubuntu1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

which is not giving me any of the thousands of lines of output to my
syslog that 1.6.2 was. Now that I've learned something new if I need to
update to 1.12.0 for any reason it will be a simple fix.

-- 
Chris
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