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> >> How can I find out what version of a package I have currently installed
>
> > dpkg -l|grep libc
>
> This is a solution, but not perfect, 'cause sometimes the package name
> gets truncated, e.g.:
>
> ii  libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.20final+rc Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs

here is the answer to the 'truncation'.

doing:

COLUMNS=139 dpkg -l

this sets the env var COLUMNS temporarity to 139 for this command.

Kevin Mark

package versions

> > How can I find out what version of a package I have currently
> > installed (e.g., glibc)?
>
> apt-cache policy foo
> dpkg -l foo
> zcat /usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz | \
>   sed -n  -e 's/^[^\x28]*[\x28]//' -e 's/\x29.*//' -e '1p'

$ COLUMNS=500 dpkg -l | awk '{print $1 " " $2 "_" $3 "\n" }' | grep libc
ii glibc-doc_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libc6_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-13
ii libcap1_1.10-14
ii libcdparanoia0_3a9.8-11
ii libcomerr2_1.35-6
ii libconsole_0.2.3dbs-54
ii libcroco2_0.5.1-1
ii libcupsimage2_1.1.20final+rc1-3
ii libcupsys2-gnutls10_1.1.20final+rc1-3
ii libcurl2_7.11.2-1

documented on: 2004.08.29