App version & installed?

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 14:54 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#
>


Give us an example of an app that shows this and also tell what happens if
you run

Which appcommand

Where appcommand is the command you run to start it in the terminal.

Colin


> 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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