How to find the Debian version of an installed package
Published: Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 Last modified: Monday, Apr 8, 2024
Finding the package version in Debian isn’t trivial. dpkg -l bash looks like
crap.
Best I’ve found is:
dpkg --status live-helper | egrep "^Version" | awk '{print $2}'
You could grep /var/lib/dpkg/available, though I think it isn’t very efficient.