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@@ -5,3 +5,11 @@ If you run a hypervisor on your system putting a different mouse cursor for both
 
 
 If you select text on X11 you can do what is middle click paste the selected text with the middle mouse button by clicking down on the scroll wheel.
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+To find out what version of softare you have you can view the `ubuntu packages website <https://packages.ubuntu.com/>`_ from whatever kind of computer you are on. On the command line you can run 
+
+.. code:: 
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+   apt policy packagename
+
+even if it does not ship with lubuntu by default.