use your distro specific package management system. ie rpm for RedHat and
SuSE, dpkg for debian. See the man page for the command (ie rpm or dpkg)
and use that to find out the package version.
\Indraneel
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upgrade some libraries and would like to find out what version
> is installed on my system. I have tried the "strings" command but am getting
> more confusing version numbers for each file. The "ldd" and "ldconfig" command
> did not help that much. How do I find out what version of library is on my
> system?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> --
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