[GRLUG] Debian

[zdennis]

David Pembrook wrote:
> How do you know what version of a given package is in what state 
> (stable,testing...) I've always left machines stock in that regard but I 
> want to try say... the newest MySQL.. Whenever I've use apt on redhat, 
> I'm just getting the latest in the current major release but never a 
> jump from say 3.x to 4.x which makes sence as they've made substantial 
> changes and you need to be carefull doing that kind of jump. Is Debian 
> going to let me specify using apt what version of MySQL I get for instance?
>  

You can use:

> apt-cache search libmysql | cut -d" " -f1 | xargs apt-cache show |  grep -E "Package|Version"

To output:

Package: libmysqlclient10
Version: 3.23.56-3
Package: libmysqlclient10-dev
Version: 3.23.56-3
Package: libmysqlclient12
Version: 4.0.24-10sarge1
Package: libmysqlclient12
Version: 4.0.24-10
Package: libmysqlclient12-dev
Version: 4.0.24-10sarge1
Package: libmysqlclient12-dev
Version: 4.0.24-10
Package: libmysqlclient14
Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge2
Package: libmysqlclient14
Version: 4.1.11a-4
Package: libmysqlclient14-dev
Version: 4.1.11a-4sarge2
Package: libmysqlclient14-dev
Version: 4.1.11a-4

Where the version goes to the above package, this way you can pick the package to install which 
matches the version you want...

Zach