APT-SHOW-SOURCE

NAME

apt-show-source - Lists source-packages.

DESCRIPTION

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.

AUTHOR

Dennis Schoen, dennis AT debian DOT org