Vesa Paatero
May 20th, 2008, 05:35 PM
Hi,
You may sometimes wonder if the newest Ubuntu release contains a certain version of an application, like "Hmm, my present Ubuntu has OpenOffice 2.2. I wonder if Hardy has the new 2.4 already?"
The best way that I found is to go to ftp.ubuntu.com and navigate through the directory structure to the distro and main/universe/multiverse section and the platform-specific binary directory, e.g.:
ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-amd64
There, a file called Packages.gz or something similar tells you which packages belong to the distro, along with information about version. Unpack the file (e.g. "gzip -d Packages.gz"), open it and search for the package of interest. The words "Package: openoffice" seem would be good for the OpenOffice example.
If you know better method for this, please let me know.
Vesa
You may sometimes wonder if the newest Ubuntu release contains a certain version of an application, like "Hmm, my present Ubuntu has OpenOffice 2.2. I wonder if Hardy has the new 2.4 already?"
The best way that I found is to go to ftp.ubuntu.com and navigate through the directory structure to the distro and main/universe/multiverse section and the platform-specific binary directory, e.g.:
ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-amd64
There, a file called Packages.gz or something similar tells you which packages belong to the distro, along with information about version. Unpack the file (e.g. "gzip -d Packages.gz"), open it and search for the package of interest. The words "Package: openoffice" seem would be good for the OpenOffice example.
If you know better method for this, please let me know.
Vesa