ceefour@caliva:~$ aptitude show firefox
Package: firefox
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 127k
Depends: firefox-3.0, firefox-3.0-branding
Provided by: abrowser
Description: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is written in the XUL language and designed to be lightweight and
cross-platform.
This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu. Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version
upgrades for this package in future.
Version info:
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org
ceefour@caliva:~$ uname -a
Linux caliva 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
ceefour@caliva:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release RELEASE= 8.10 CODENAME= intrepid DESCRIPTION= "Ubuntu 8.10"
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
ceefour@caliva:~$ aptitude show firefox -0ubuntu0. 8.10.1 3.0-branding
Package: firefox
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.0.5+nobinonly
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 127k
Depends: firefox-3.0, firefox-
Provided by: abrowser
Description: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is written in the XUL language and designed to be lightweight and
cross-platform.
This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu. Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version
upgrades for this package in future.