Sometimes I want to be sure that I'm installing a minimum version
number of an application before I apt-get install it. How can I check
what version of a particular program apt-get will install, before I
install it. Fedora's Yum shows version number and asks for
confirmation before any installation, is it possible to replicate this
behaviour in apt-get?

Dotan Cohen

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On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:


*How can I check what version of a particular program apt-get will install, before I
install it.
*
sudo apt-get search <what you're looking for>



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On Dec 10, 2007 4:26 PM, Padraig <padraigrorry@gmail.com> wrote:

On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:



*How can I check what version of a particular program apt-get will install, before I
install it.
*
sudo apt-get search <what you're looking for>
I'm sorry, that's:

sudo apt-cache search packagename


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On 10/12/2007, Padraig <padraigrorry@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How can I check what version of a particular program apt-get will
> install, before I
> > install it.
>
> sudo apt-get search <what you're looking for>
>

feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get search gimp
E: Invalid operation search
feisty@feisty-laptop:~$

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Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 10.12.2007 22:31

</snip>


> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get search gimp
> E: Invalid operation search
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$

sudo is not needed for "searching only" tasks.

$ apt-cache policy gimp
(espacilly usefull if you would like to know from where it would be installed)

$ aptitude show gimp
(more verbose)


> Dotan Cohen


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Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 10.12.2007 22:31
> On 10/12/2007, Padraig <padraigrorry@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How can I check what version of a particular program apt-get will
>> install, before I

</snip>

create the the file:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99localsetting

with:
<---------------------------------------------
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions "true";
--------------------------------------------->


$ sudo aptitude install gimp

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