App version & installed?

[Bret Busby]

On 20/09/2018, Grizzly via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have upgraded from ubuntu 16.04.5 to 18.04.1, everything seems to work
>
> I had a few apps installed before the upgrade and wanted to check if there
> were
> newer version(s) so top start I tried
>
> apt-cache policy app-name
>
> I got
>
> installed none
> candidate a_version_#&sub-version#
>
> I know I have the app installed (via apt install) as I can run it
>
> I tried app-name --version (also -version & -v)
> and get -v is not valid
>
> just
>
> app-name
> returns the main version but not any sub-version numbers
>
> searching under "Activities" offers to install but does not show the
> installed
> app(s)
>
> this is on more than a few working apps
>
> "IF" I (re)run
> apt install app-name
>
> will I just have two competing version of the same app(s)
>
>
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I may be wrong, but I believe that, if you run synaptic, and within
that, search for the package(s), their status and version numbers,
should be displayed.

Is synaptic (still, if it was previously) present?

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Bret Busby
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