How can I check installed program versions in terminal. Is there any command for that, for example ver or something similar?
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I would like to know how to get the version information of an installed program that doesn't have the      --version or -version   method implemented.
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How to enable the backports repository so I can get newer versions of software?
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How can I switch on the option to be notified for a new Ubuntu version, which you usually find in      Dash --> System Settings --> Software &amp; Updates --> Updates --> Notify me of a new Ubuntu version`   from command line to never?
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Not packages and not all applications. Just the applications user installed by himself from whatever source (Software Center, manually added PPA, etc.). If the above is not possible - a list of all installed applications or at least a GUI which lists the applications so I can take screenshots of it.  I've read a dozen of similar questions and people posting answers usually don't even get close to OP question merit. Please note that my question includes 'user installed'.   Answer: It is not currently possible in Ubuntu Linux.  (choosing tijybba's answer as the closest one though)
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I'm looking for a tool or method to find out what command line parameters have been passed to a program, for example when it was run by another program (launcher-application scenario).
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When installing something from source (say, Ruby 1.9.2), what command can I run to get a complete list of all the dependencies needed to install that application? Is this possible?
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Maybe this is a stupid question.  I would like to know how do I know what is the version of my debian system.  Thanks a lot
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I type python in a terminal window. I get Python 2.7 and not Python 3.5. According to the docs, Python 3.5 should come preloaded.
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In Python, is there a portable and simple way to test if an executable program exists?  By simple I mean something like the which command which would be just perfect. I don't want to search PATH manually or something involving trying to execute it with Popen &amp; al and see if it fails (that's what I'm doing now, but imagine it's launchmissiles)
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Everything I've googled so far has used the command line?
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I want my Ruby program to do different things on a Mac than on Windows. How can I find out on which system my program is running?
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How do you check the windows version in Win32 at runtime?
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Is there a method or command which can tell from which repository a package is coming from?
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If I open Terminal and type in python, I see the version is 2.7.4. How do I get python 3.4? And do I need IDLE if I have sublime text?
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Is there a command in Git to see (either dumped to stdout, or in $PAGER or $EDITOR) a particular version of a particular file?
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I am currently looking for a website or a tool that would allow me to compare the package state of a particular software in different Linux distributions.  For instance, which version of gimp is provided by Mint, Ubuntu, Debian Sid and Fedora 18?  An immediate interest would be to be able to avoid reinventing the wheel when packaging software (for instance re-use patches from other distros).
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I want to list all the packages(installed or not installed) along with the latest version number available in the repositories.  For example:  The output of apt-cache policy chromium-browser shows like below  $ apt-cache policy chromium-browser chromium-browser:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2   Version table:      34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0         500 http://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/Linux/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages   So the latest version of chromium-browser package available in the repository is 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2. Like that, i want to list the version number along with the package names that are available in repositories. And all i want to do this through command-line.  I want the output to be like this,  chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx   yyyyyyyyyyy ............     ............