Version numbers of Fedora Core 3 programs
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Dec 13 20:47:36 UTC 2004
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Don wrote:
> Previously (Fedora 2,1 and RedHat), I could get application version numbers
> (e.g. httpd, squid, etc...) by typing at the command prompt:
> appname -v
This is very application-specific. For some, "-v" might mean "verbose", or
nothing at all. You're better off doing what the other poster suggested and
checking the version of the RPM you have installed.
> With my fedora core 3, this just returns the command prompt with no output.
> Has something changed? How can I get the version numbers of all my
> installed application severs?
"rpm -qa" will list everything. Or "rpm -qai" to get everything with
descriptions.
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