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Q&A How do I find out the version of a program in a terminal?

If the program was installed with your package manager, the package manager should be able to tell you that. For example: $ pacman --query bash bash 5.2.026-2 If you don't know the package n...

posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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#3: History hidden by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2024-06-13T18:28:18Z (5 months ago)
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If the program was installed with your package manager, the package manager should be able to tell you that. For example:

```
$ pacman --query bash
bash 5.2.026-2
```

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If you don't know the package name, you need to first figure out the full path of your command, for example:
```
$ which mbsync
/usr/bin/mbsync
```

With this you can ask the package manager what package owns that file. For example:
```
$ pacman --query --owns /usr/bin/mbsync
/usr/bin/mbsync is owned by isync 1.4.4-4
```

Pacman is nice enough that it already tells me the version, but if it didn't, I would now do `pacman --query isync` to get it.
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#1: Initial revision by user avatar matthewsnyder‭ · 2024-06-13T18:27:07Z (5 months ago)

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