apt-get to display upgrade details

[AnotherMuggle]

Morning All,

Does anyone know if it's possible to get "apt-get upgrade" to tell you the details of the upgrade for individual packages, like you see in Update Manager?

I'd like to see details of the changes in each of the updates before I go ahead and install them. Mainly out of curiosity and partly to see if any of the bugs I know about are about to get fixed :D

Cheers,
TK

[PaulW2U]

Try these:


sudo apt-get -V upgrade

will show the old and new version numbers while


apt-get changelog <package name>

will show the change log if there is one.

If you type apt-get in a terminal window you'll see the various options available.

[AnotherMuggle]

Try these:


sudo apt-get -V upgrade

will show the old and new version numbers while


apt-get changelog <package name>

will show the change log if there is one.

If you type apt-get in a terminal window you'll see the various options available.

This looks like what I wanted!

I had a look at the man pages and got a bit of an idea on what I needed to do but I don't like to run commands I'm not totally happy I understand.

Thanks for the info :D