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I can add a ppa which would change the version of a package in the repositories - for example Inkscape has a dev version.

Before I install "Inkscape" with sudo apt-get install inkscape, how can I know which version will be installed?

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  • May be your question is same as this.
    – Krishna
    Apr 25, 2016 at 21:23

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Use apt-cache policy:

$ apt-cache policy gitlab-ce
gitlab-ce:
  Installed: 8.6.1-ce.0
  Candidate: 8.7.0-ce.0
  Version table:
     8.7.0-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.7-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.6-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.5-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.4-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.3-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.6.2-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
 *** 8.6.1-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8.6.0-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.5.11-ce.1 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     8.5.10-ce.0 0
        500 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

The version listed as the Candidate will be picked. The current version (if any) will be listed as Installed and marked with the asterisks.

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  • Probably a better example would be one with multiple versions available (e.g. debootstrap or clang-3.8 in Ubuntu 16.04 now).
    – JanC
    Apr 25, 2016 at 21:19

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