Sometimes you may need to find out a package’s version available in the repository, before installing the package. There are a few ways to achieve this. The easiest way to do this is to use the apt-cache tool. Like this:…
Sometimes you may need to find out a package’s version available in the repository, before installing the package. There are a few ways to achieve this. The easiest way to do this is to use the apt-cache tool. Like this:…
In this short article I will show you how to find out the version of a package with dpkg and rpm, on the most used Linux Distros. For Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, PuppyOS, Knoppix: Syntax: dpkg -s {package_name} $ dpkg…