How to see what version of Binutils is on Ubuntu?
Yes, with ld -v you can view the version of binutils (in your case is 2.24)
I tested it only with the Debian 8, but I think it must be working with other Debian-based operation systems (Ubuntu, Mint, other).
dpkg -l | grep binutils
$ dpkg -l | grep binutils
ii binutils 2.25-5+deb8u1 amd64 GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
apt-cache policy binutils
$ apt-cache policy binutils
binutils:
Installed: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Candidate: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Version table:
*** 2.25-5+deb8u1 0
500 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ jessie-proposed-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.25-5 0
500 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
apt-cache show binutils (stripped)
$ apt-cache show binutils
Package: binutils
Version: 2.25-5+deb8u1
Installed-Size: 20566
Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: binutils-gold (<< 2.20.51.20100415), binutils-mingw-w64-i686 (<< 2.23.52.20130612-1+3), binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 (<< 2.23.52.20130612-1+3)
Provides: binutils-gold, elf-binutils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Suggests: binutils-doc (>= 2.25-5+deb8u1)
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ld --version
$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.25
ar --version
$ ar --version
GNU ar (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.25