On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:52:48PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: | Is there a simple way of get a list of each of the libraries and | programs on my machine?
dpkg -l \* | grep "^ii" | While it is simple to extract the package versions from dpkg, its | the versions of some of the programs that I need to find. If the package has version 1.2.3-4 the app's version is 1.2.3. The only time this doesn't hold is if a package contains an unofficial or pre-release version of upstream sources. Then the package version usually has the date or something similar in the name. -D -- (E)scape (M)eta (A)lt (C)ontrol (S)hift