How do I list all installed packages with specific version numbers?
Use dpkg -l
instead.
Example:
dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep skype
Outputs this:
alaa@aa-lu:~$ dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep skype ii skype 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 i386 client for Skype VOIP...
If you only want to extract the name and version, you can do this:
dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep skype | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}'
Which will only print the second and third column from the above output, like this:
alaa@aa-lu:~$ dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep skype | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}' skype 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
Of course, if you want to list all of your installed packages with their versions, and not only Skype, then just remove the grep skype
part to make the command like this:
dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}'
Use
dpkg-query --show apache2
to get the version number for package apache2
and
dpkg-query --show
to get the version numbers for all installed packages