On 10/21/23, జిందం వాఐి <jindam.v...@disroot.org> wrote: > On 2023-10-21 18:00, Dan Ritter wrote: >> జిందం వాఐి wrote: >>> * i want to check package versions >>> available in various suites [ stable, testing, >>> experimental, etc.. ] using cli >>> * for example_ firefox >> >> >> apt can look for versions available in the repositories that you >> have retrieved (by specifying the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list or >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* ). > > * this is my sources.list > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free > non-free-firmware > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free > non-free-firmware > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main > contrib non-free non-free-firmware > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib > non-free non-free-firmware > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug bookworm-debug main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main
>From a terminal command line: $ apt-cache policy firefox That should help, but it will only provide query results that are relative to your sources.list lines above. To show suites not represented in sources.list, the already recommended packages webpage covers those. And, actually, that "policy" command tells me there's nothing specifically by that name in my own setup. The following helps to show if there are any packages that include "firefox" as part of their name: $ apt-cache search --names-only firefox In my case, that query brought up firefox-esr (which I just flat out couldn't remember, lol). >> To search for versions available in repositories that you have >> *not* enabled, you need to do a network search of >> packages.debian.org. >> >> For example: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firefox Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *