On Sb, 25 oct 14, 14:59:28, Keith Christian wrote: > > Have searched the WWW and man pages without finding anything like "dry > run" or "show possible upgrades" specifically for aptitude.
aptitude search '?upgradeable' The full aptitude documentation is in the package aptitude-doc-en. If you only want information about a particular package you can use one of $ aptitude versions ^cron$ Package cron: p A 3.0pl1-124 stable 500 p A 3.0pl1-124.2 testing 500 i A 3.0pl1-126 100 p A 3.0pl1-127 unstable 500 (aptitude's 'versions' always treats the package name as a pattern, so you have to be a bit more specific if you get too many hits) $ apt-get policy cron cron: Installed: 3.0pl1-126 Candidate: 3.0pl1-127 Version table: 3.0pl1-127 0 500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages *** 3.0pl1-126 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.0pl1-124.2 0 500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages 3.0pl1-124 0 500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages $ apt show cron Listing... Done cron/unstable 3.0pl1-127 i386 [upgradable from: 3.0pl1-126] N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them. (the 'apt' command is only available as of Jessie) > Previously I've seen recommendations to use aptitude or apt-get for > updates/upgrades but not mix them due to creating inconsistencies in > the package file listings, or something. (Maybe this isn't an issue > in 2014?) Shouldn't be. If you find any please do file a bug. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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