[GRLUG] Debian

[David Pembrook]

I'm poking around on a fresh install and am seeing 4.1 available.. No
mention of the 5.x series...

Compile time I guess LOL

----- Original Message -----
From: "zdennis" <zdennis at mktec.com>
To: "GRLUG general mailing list" <grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Debian


> 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
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