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varaahan

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From: Chennai , India

Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 145

How to find the version of an installed package

I am a little bit confused when somebody asks me which version of so-and-so package I am using.
I don't know how to get that. eg: kernel version, xorg version, gtk version etc.

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thepizzaking

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From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Registered: 2006-03-13

Posts: 46

Re: How to find the version of an installed package

'pacman -Q PACKAGENAME' should do it

shilder

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From: Russia

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 13

Re: How to find the version of an installed package

I am a little bit confused when somebody asks me which version of so-and-so package I am using.
I don't know how to get that. eg: kernel version, xorg version, gtk version etc.

maybe pacman -Qi helps ? ) or even pacman -Qs
version number is, usually, a number after a name of package, eg:
xorg-11R7.0-1 - it's xorg package version 11R7.0 (usually just 7.0)
gtk-1.2.10-7 - gtk1, version 1.2.10 (the 7 at the end is a version of archlinux pkg. read wiki for more info :)
gtk2-2.8.17-1 - gtk2, version 2.8.17

and so on :) hope it helps..

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Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

Posts: 445

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Re: How to find the version of an installed package

[stalwart@naga ~]$ pacman -Qi kernel26 | grep Ver
Version        : 2.6.20.3-2

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ThinkPad

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Registered: 2019-01-29

Posts: 125

Re: How to find the version of an installed package

Post #2 is the answer. Mark as solved.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: How to find the version of an installed package

Post #2 is the answer. Mark as solved.

You really think they're going to do that 14 years later? Watch dates more closely.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: How to find the version of an installed package

Time to go back to sleep again thread, sorry for the noise.

Closing.

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