apt-show-source(1p)

Overview

This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed.

It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list point to stable and the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With this program you are easily able to find out if there is a newer version of eg. Program XXXX in unstable.

Command line parameters

Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the path to APT's list files and a package name. There are also options to display: all source-packages, verbose messages, version-only and command-line help.

Options

-stf FILE, --status-file=FILE

Reads installed packages from FILE instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.

-ld DIRECTORY, --list-dir=DIRECTORY

DIRECTORY specifies the path to APT's list files, defaults to /var/lib/apt/lists/.

-p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE

Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for PACKAGE.

--version-only

Prints version only if used together with --package.

-a, --all

Prints out all available source-packages with version.

-v, --verbose

Prints out verbose messages.

-h, --help

Prints out command-line help.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.