audio players

[Kenny Hitt]

hi.  what advantage does this program have over just typing

apt-cache show package

and

dpkg --status package

          Kenny
	  
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:40:41AM -0700, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, 
> You should also make sure you have apt-show-versions installed.  To do
> this do this.
> Apt-get install apt-show-versions 
> Now when you want to know what version of a program you have installed
> you can then 
> Type apt-show-versions package name.  
> If you do not have it installed it will report that package x is not
> installed.  Replace package name in the above example with the name of